China Records First Covid-19 Deaths Since May as Cases Edge Toward Record High


中国公布了约六个月来首次出现的新冠相关死亡病例，目前北京等地新冠病例激增对政府推动放松防控的行动构成挑战。


周一，一名工人在北京一个处于新冠封控状态的小区

中国公布了约六个月来首次出现的新冠相关死亡病例，目前新冠病例激增或对政府推动放松防控的行动形成挑战。此前中国的疫情防控成本高昂，并引发不满。 6park.com
China acknowledged its first deaths related to Covid-19 in about six months as surging cases collide with a government push to ease unpopular and costly pandemic controls. 6park.com
  
官方数据显示，北京三例死亡病例都是87岁以上的老人，有基础病。在过去四天里，北京的感染人数增加了一倍多。中国周日公布新增约26,000例本土病例，其他主要城市的病例也出现了激增，所有省份均连续第六天出现新增病例。（截至发稿，中国已公布周一新增逾27,000例本土病例。） 6park.com
The three victims, all over 87 years old and with pre-existing illnesses, were from Beijing, where infections have more than doubled in the past four days, official data show. China reported around 26,000 locally transmitted new daily cases for Sunday, with cases also surging in other major cities and outbreaks reported in all regions for a sixth consecutive day. 6park.com
  
新增死亡病例加上全国范围内感染病例增加，对最高领导层最近放松部分防控措施的行动构成挑战。中国政府下令缩短入境旅客的隔离时间，并取消了对新冠次密接人员的一些强制隔离要求。 6park.com
The deaths and countrywide infections challenge recent moves by the top leadership to dial back some pandemic controls. The Chinese government ordered quarantine periods for inbound travelers to be shortened and lifted some mandatory quarantine requirements for close contacts of Covid patients. 6park.com
  
与此同时，中国政府表示，无意放弃“动态清零”政策，只是告诉地方官员在落实政策方面要更加精准，尽量减少对国民经济的损害。然而，随着病例数量激增，指向不一的信息已经让人们摸不着头脑，许多城市要求民众频繁进行核酸检测，有更多住宅楼频频遭到突如其来的封控。 6park.com
At the same time, the central government has said it has no intention of abandoning its “zero-Covid” policy, only telling local officials to be more precise in its application to minimize damage to the country’s economy. Still, as cases surged, the mixed messaging has sown confusion as many cities order citizens to take frequent Covid tests and more residential buildings are put into sudden and frequent lockdowns. 6park.com
  
政府数据显示，在过去七天里，中国平均每天报告近22,000个新增病例，其中一半以上出现在中国南部经济中心广东省以及直辖市重庆。 6park.com
China reported an average of almost 22,000 new daily cases over the past seven days, more than half of which were found in China’s southern economic hub of Guangdong province and the metropolis of Chongqing, government data showed. 6park.com
  
包括北京和广东省省会广州在内的主要城市的官员已经实施新的封控措施，并让居民留在家中。北京一些地区的学校本周一重新开始线上授课。根据高盛(Goldman Sachs) 11月18日的研究报告，而上周中国19个主要城市的地铁客运量比去年同期的水平低约四分之一，重庆市则低约90%。 6park.com
Officials in major cities including Beijing and Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, have imposed fresh lockdowns and told residents to stay home. Schools in some parts of the country’s capital returned to online classes this Monday. Ridership on subways in 19 major Chinese cities last week was about one-quarter below levels a year earlier, and about 90% lower in Chongqing, according to a Nov. 18 research note by Goldman Sachs. 6park.com
  
该投行表示，上周末处于全面或部分封控状态的城市贡献了中国一半以上的国内生产总值(GDP)。仅北京、广州和重庆三地GDP占比就接近9%。 6park.com
Cities under full or partial lockdowns at the end of last week contributed more than half of China’s gross domestic product, the investment bank said. Beijing, Guangzhou and Chongqing alone account for almost 9% of GDP. 6park.com
  
随着病例数量逐渐接近今年上海封控数月时的最高纪录，投资者担心制造业、全球贸易和国内经济增长受到的干扰会再次出现。周一，在香港上市的餐厅、零售商和澳门博彩股跌幅居前，而酒类制造商则对中国境内市场造成拖累。恒生指数下跌1.9%，上证综合指数下跌0.4%。 6park.com
With cases edging closer to the record high recorded at the height of this year’s monthslong lockdown of Shanghai, investors are wary of a repeat of the disruption to manufacturing, global trade and domestic economic growth that caused. Restaurant, retailer and Macau-casino stocks listed in Hong Kong were among the top decliners on Monday, while liquor makers dragged on the Chinese onshore market. The Hang Seng Index fell 1.9%, while the Shanghai Composite Index declined 0.4%. 6park.com
  
北京市疾病预防控制中心副主任刘晓峰周一下午说：“本市面临新冠疫情发生以来最复杂最严峻的防控形势。”北京市政府说，将要求从其他城市进京的人在抵达后的三天内每天进行核酸检测。 6park.com
“Beijing is facing the most complicated and severe situation of containing Covid since the coronavirus first emerged,” Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday. Beijing will require people arriving from other cities to test daily for three days on arrival, the Beijing government said. 6park.com
  
拥有1,900万人口的广州周一表示，将对中国第三大机场所在的城区实施封控，为期五天。上周末，广州有关部门关闭了中央商务区的所有娱乐场所，并停止了餐厅的堂食服务，此前该市的其他地区已经实施了严格的限制措施。 6park.com
Guangzhou said Monday it would lock down for five days the district where China’s third-largest airport is located. Over the weekend, authorities in the city of 19 million people closed all entertainment venues and halted dine-in services in restaurants in the central business district, after already imposing stringent restrictions in other areas of the city. 6park.com
  
研究机构龙洲经讯(GaveKal Dragonomics)上周在给客户的一份报告中说，这种混乱和快速变化的形势所带来的经济不确定性，近期内似乎可能进一步抑制消费和房地产销售。 6park.com
The chaotic and rapidly evolving situation presents economic uncertainty that seems likely to further damp consumption and property sales in the near term, research firm Gavekal Dragonomics said in a note to clients last week. 6park.com
  
北京一家科技公司的员工Sean Zhu说，每天醒来时，都不知道自己是不是绿码，能不能去上班。他所在的办公楼最近要求，出示24小时内核酸以及健康宝绿码才能进入。未参加强制性新冠检测的人可能失去绿码。 6park.com
“You won’t know every day you wake up whether you are green-ed to go to work or not,” said Sean Zhu, a tech company employee in Beijing. His office building recently required daily negative Covid results and a green health code on a government monitoring app to enter. People who skip mandatory Covid tests could lose their green code. 6park.com
  
北京市卫生部门公布周日新增两例新冠死亡病例，分别是一名91岁的女性，合并脑梗病史，一名88岁的男性，有慢性支气管炎和高血压病史。北京市政府部门表示，上周六，一名新冠感染者、合并长期高血压病史的87岁男子严重肺部细菌感染，发生败血症休克后死亡。中国官方今年以来报告的死亡病例数由此达到595例。据世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)的数据，这比日本过去七日的死亡病例数要少。许多国际观察人士对中国的数字持怀疑态度，不过公共卫生专家也承认，中国的防疫政策有助于保护民众免受新冠病毒侵害。 6park.com
Health authorities in the Chinese capital on Sunday reported two deaths of people with Covid-19, a 91-year-old woman with cerebral infarction and an 88-year-old man with respiratory disease and hypertension. On Saturday, an 87-year-old man with Covid and long-term hypertension died of sepsis triggered by a serious lung infection, the Beijing government said. The deaths bring the country’s official toll to 595 this year. That is less than Japan’s toll in the past seven days, according to World Health Organization data. Many international observers are skeptical of China’s figures, though public-health experts also acknowledge that its Covid policies have helped shield the population from the virus. 6park.com
  
在最近暴发的疫情中，老年人群体变得更加脆弱，原因是中国难以说服更多的老年人接种疫苗。政府数据显示，在80岁及以上的老年人群体中，截至本月早些时候有66%的人已全程接种疫苗，但只有40%的人接种了加强针。 6park.com
Elderly people have become more vulnerable during recent outbreaks, as the country struggles to convince more of them to get vaccinated. Among those 80 years and older, 66% have been fully vaccinated while only 40% have taken a booster as of earlier this month, according to government data. 6park.com
  
本轮疫情还引发了普通民众的担忧，他们担心一旦被感染是否能得到充分的治疗。一些居民告诉《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)，由于当地医院床位不足，广州当地政府已告知一些检测呈阳性但无症状的人保持冷静并居家。广州本月报告了大约八万例病例。在此之前，检测结果呈阳性的人都被转运至医院或集中隔离设施。 6park.com
The flare-ups have also prompted concerns among ordinary people about whether they would receive adequate treatment if infected. Local authorities in Guangzhou, which has reported around 80,000 cases this month, have told some people who tested positive but experienced no symptoms to remain calm and stay at home as local hospitals ran short of beds, some residents told The Wall Street Journal. Previously, people testing positive were sent to hospital or central quarantine facilities. 6park.com
  
中国国家传染病医学中心主任张文宏在上周五的一个论坛上表示，目前病毒毒株变异一直维持在奥密克戎家族内，对人体造成的损害也在逐渐降低。 6park.com
The threat to health posed by the coronavirus is decreasing as strains mutate within the Omicron variant, Zhang Wenhong, director of China’s National Infectious Disease Medical Center, said at a forum Friday. 6park.com
  
张文宏表示：“注射新冠疫苗加强针，尤其是序贯免疫接种，可以为我们最终走出疫情提供保护。” 6park.com
“Vaccine boosters can provide very good protection for us to eventually exit the pandemic,” Dr. Zhang said. 6park.com