Disease

Covid-19 - China

Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with Covid-19 on a single day this week, the Bloomberg news agency has reported, citing minutes from an internal meeting of the country’s National Health Commission held on Wednesday. In all, the report which was published on Friday said about 18 percent of the country’s population – 248 million people – are likely to have contracted the virus in the first 20 days of December.

China is witnessing a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases since it dropped its controversial zero-Covid policy following widespread protests in recent weeks.

On Thursday, health data firm Airfinity estimated that there are likely more than 5,000 daily deaths and upwards of a million daily infections from Covid-19 in the country. Mortality risk analysis suggested between 1.3 million to 2.1 million people could die in China’s current Covid-19 outbreak. However, on the same day, China officially reported less than 4 000 new symptomatic local Covid-19 cases nationwide and no deaths from the virus.

Officially China has reported a total of 1 909 905 cover-19 cases with only 5 242 deaths.

Dengue Fever, Leprosy - Vietnam

According to the Vietnam Ministry of Health, the whole country recorded 7,350 cases of dengue fever, 1 death in Lam Dong during the past week. Compared to the previous week, the number of cases decreased by 24%. In which, the number of hospitalizations was 6,048. Since the beginning of the year, Vietnam has seen 354,282 cases and 133 deaths from dengue fever.

Health authorities said that currently, the detection rate of new leprosy patients has steadily decreased over the years, but this is still an infectious disease with potential risk of transmission. In 2022, the whole country detected 50 new cases of this disease. Leprosy is a contagious disease with a long incubation period which can be 5 to 10 years after being exposed to an infectious source.