The UK-based health experts estimate about 9,000 people a days are now dying of the disease in China, SIA refers to Reuters.
The United States is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new Covid-19 variants as infections surge in China.
The proposed of testing wastewater by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would provide a better solution to tracking the virus and slowing its entry into the US than new travel restrictions announced this week, three infectious disease experts said.
The US and a number of other countries have said travellers from China will require mandatory negative Covid tests.
Their comments came as UK-based health data firm Airfinity said about 9,000 people in China were probably dying each day from Covid, nearly doubling its estimate from a week ago.
Covid infections started to sweep across China in November, picking up pace this month after Beijing dismantled its zero-Covid policies including regular PCR testing on its population and publication of data on asymptomatic cases.
Cumulative deaths in China since 1 December likely reached 100,000, with infections totalling 18.6m, Airfinity said in a statement on Thursday. It used modelling based on data from Chinese provinces before the recent changes to reporting cases were implemented, it said.
Airfinity expects China’s Covid infections to reach their first peak on 13 January with 3.7m cases a day.
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