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China says COVID outbreak easing on eve of Lunar New Year travel rush

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China said the worst was over in its battle against COVID\u002D19 ahead of what is expected to be the busiest day of travel in years on Friday.

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“Recently, the overall pandemic in the country is at a relatively low level,” Sun said in comments reported by the state-run Xinhua news agency. China reported a large jump in COVID-19 hospitalisations in the week through to Jan. 15, to the highest since the pandemic began, according to a report published by the World Health Organization on Thursday.

China said last Saturday that nearly 60,000 people with COVID had died in hospital between Dec. 8 and Jan. 12 – a roughly 10-fold increase from previous disclosures.

 

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