China reviews first Covid demise in additional than six months as WHO investigators arrive

A lady in Hebei province died Wednesday afternoon, state media reported, noting her sickness was a extreme case and she or he had pre-existing well being circumstances.

The province surrounds Beijing and started to report a speedy improve in coronavirus circumstances earlier this month. In lower than two weeks, authorities have locked down Shijiazhuang and different elements of Hebei province in an effort to maintain the illness from spreading.

The Nationwide Well being Fee recorded Wednesday’s demise in its each day report on the native coronavirus scenario, the primary addition to the general toll since Could 2020.

That introduced mainland China’s coronavirus complete deaths to 4,365 folks. The primary reported demise from Covid-19 was on Jan. 11, 2020 within the metropolis of Wuhan, the place the illness first emerged in late 2019.

A staff from the World Well being Group arrived in Wuhan Thursday to research the origins of the virus alongside Chinese language scientists, based on state media.

The Chinese language authorities has pushed again in opposition to implications that Covid-19 got here from China. After the peak of the outbreak within the nation early final 12 months, authorities attributed subsequent circumstances to international sources.