China said Wednesday that not a single person had died of COVID-19 the previous day, after changing the criteria for recording virus deaths to mean most are no longer counted.
Hospitals are struggling, pharmacy shelves are stripped bare and crematoriums are overwhelmed in the wake of the Chinese government's sudden decision to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing.
Previously, people who died of an illness while infected with the virus were counted as a COVID-19 death. This way of recording COVID-19 deaths accounts for huge numbers of fatalities in other countries. And one expert told AFP that because the prevalent Omicron variant does not affect the lungs as much as other strains of COVID-19, the changing definition will mean a great many more cases will now go unrecorded.
But authorities are determined to push ahead with re-opening, with the central city of Xi'an Tuesday joining several other major population centers in calling for infected people with no symptoms to go to work as normal.
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