China reports 60,000 Covid-related deaths, says peak passed

China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had Covid-19 since early December.

Those numbers may still underestimate the toll, though the government said the “emergency peak” of its latest surge appears to have passed.

The toll included 5,503 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by Covid-19 and 54,435 fatalities from other ailments combined with Covid-19 since Dec. 8, the National Health Commission announced. It said those “deaths related to Covid” occurred in hospitals, which means anyone who died at home would not be included in the numbers.

The report would more than double China’s official Covid-19 death toll to 10,775 since the disease was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019.

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