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On 3 April, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the pandemic in Wuhan in February 2020. [14] On 4 April, officials in Suzhou announced a new mutation of the Omicron variant was detected in Changshu.
By late 2020, public health experts estimated that the Wuhan lockdown prevented between 500,000 and 3 million infections and between 18,000 and 70,000 deaths. [111] A November 2021 study examining data from the first half of 2020 estimated that over 347,000 deaths may have been prevented in China by COVID-19 prevention measures from 1 January ...
The 2019–2020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China was the first COVID-19 outbreak in that country, and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the disease, the first to impose drastic measures in response (including ...
In June 2020, the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine (BBIBP-CorV) was authorized for emergency use in China. On July 22 2020 Chinese authorities started the emergency use of COVID-19 vaccines. [44] As of July 2022, it was estimated that about 89.7% of the country's population had received a vaccine, and about 56% of the population had received a booster ...
The first known outbreak (the 2019–2020 COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China) started in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019. [32] Many early cases were linked to people who had visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market there, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] [ 35 ] but it is possible that human-to-human transmission began earlier.
The news of a "strange pneumonia" in China had been circulating on Vietnamese media since the beginning of January 2020. [6] The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Vietnam on 23 January 2020, when two Chinese people in Ho Chi Minh City tested positive for the virus.
The case count in mainland China only includes symptomatic cases. It excludes patients who test positive but do not have symptoms, of which there were 889 as of 11 February 2020. [1] Asymptomatic infections are reported separately. [2] It is also reported that there were more than 43,000 by the end of February 2020.
China's response to the initial Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak has been both praised and criticised. In October 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases reported: "While the world is struggling to control COVID-19, China has managed to control the pandemic rapidly and effectively." [3] The Chinese government has been criticized for censorship, which ...