In the previous month, China reported about 60,000 COVID-related deaths.

In response to allegations that it was withholding statistics, China has revealed roughly 60,000 fatalities among COVID patients since the beginning of December.
The National Health Commission reported on Saturday that the "emergency peak" of COVID-19's most recent surge appears to have passed. The death toll from December 8 through Thursday included 54,435 fatalities from other illnesses combined with COVID-19 and 5,503 deaths from respiratory failure brought on by the virus.
There were 59,938 virus-related deaths in Chinese hospitals between December 8 and January 12.
It stated that the documented COVID-19 deaths happened in hospitals, leaving open the possibility that more persons could have passed away at home.
The report would increase to 10,775 the official number of deaths in China directly attributed to COVID-19 since the virus was discovered in late 2019 in the central city of Wuhan.
In spite of an increase in infections that started in October and has packed hospitals with feverish, wheezing patients, China abruptly lifted anti-virus regulations in December and stopped releasing data on COVID-19 deaths and infections.
Following reports from local and provincial governments that suggested hundreds of millions of individuals in China may have come into contact with the virus, the World Health Organization and other nations appealed to China for information.
According to National Health Commission official Jiao Yahui, the peak of the most recent wave of infections appeared to have passed based on a drop in the number of people visiting fever clinics.
According to Jiao, the daily attendance at those clinics peaked at 2.9 million on December 23 and dropped by 83 percent to 477,000 on Thursday.
China has previously reported little more than 5,000 fatalities since the epidemic started, one of the lowest fatality rates in the world. However, international health experts have forecast that at least one million COVID-related deaths will occur this year.
