Airfinity, a British medical data analysis company, predicted that over 36,000 people will die from COVID-19 a day during the Lunar New Year holiday, China's biggest holiday.
Airfinity predicted that during this period of expected population displacement of billions of people, China would experience "one more long and severe wave of COVID-19."
The Chinese authorities have officially set the Lunar New Year holidays from the 21st to the 27th, the day before the Lunar New Year, and the 7th to the 15th of the next month as the Lunar New Year special transportation period.
Airfinity's chief researcher Matt Linley pointed out that more than 36,000 deaths a day would put a significant burden on the Chinese health care system, and that patients who can be treated are likely to die.
Airfinity said it estimated that an average of more than 36,000 deaths per day would occur during the Lunar New Year holiday, taking into account the quarantine situation in Henan, Gansu, Qinghai, and Yunnan provinces, where the corona 19 infection is estimated to have passed the peak.
Airfinity has estimated China's cumulative death toll from COVID-19 at 608,000 since December last year.
This is about 10 times higher than the tally on the 14th of the National Health Commission of China, which said that there were 59,938 deaths related to Corona 19 infection in hospitals accumulated by medical institutions from the 8th of last month to the 12th of this month.
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