{"id":51365,"date":"2022-12-23T08:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/how-accurate-are-chinas-covid-death-numbers"},"modified":"2022-12-23T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:53:26","slug":"how-accurate-are-chinas-covid-death-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51365","title":{"rendered":"How accurate are China\u2019s Covid death numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With one of the lowest coronavirus tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infections and deaths for political reasons<\/p>\n<p>The sudden end to China\u2019s controversial zero-Covid strategy caught the country\u2019s fragile health system unprepared, with hospitals scrambling for beds, pharmacies on the hunt for drugs and authorities racing to build special clinics.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/world-health-organization\">World Health Organisation<\/a> official said China may be struggling to keep a tally of Covid-19 infections as it experiences a big spike in cases. Experts say China could face more than a million Covid deaths next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/23\/how-accurate-are-chinas-covid-death-numbers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one of the lowest coronavirus tolls in the world, China has been routinely accused of downplaying infections and deaths for political reasonsThe sudden end to China\u2019s controversial zero-Covid strategy caught the country\u2019s fragile health system unp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions\/51366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}