CHINA REPORTS 2 COVID DEATHS, FIRST IN MORE THAN ONE YEAR

  • 19/03/2022

As the country confronts an omicron-driven surge, China's national health authorities announced two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the first increase in the death toll since January 2021.

Both deaths, which occurred in northeastern Jilin province, increase the total number of coronavirus deaths in China to 4,638.

On Saturday, China reported 2,157 new Covid-19 cases from community transmission, the majority of which were in Jilin. A travel ban has been imposed across the province, with residents needing police permission to traverse borders. 

Since the epidemic began in late 2019 in the central city of Wuhan, China has documented 4,636 deaths.

As the epidemic swamped the city's hospitals and other systems, it amended its death toll once in April 2020, putting in more deaths that were not first counted.

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