Category: infection rate

Chinese Cities See COVID-19 Infection Rate Exceeding 50 Percent

The rate of COVID-19 infections may have exceeded 50 percent in Chinese provinces and large cities and reached as high as 80 percent in the capital city of Beijing, the country’s health experts and officials estimated, painting a picture much grimmer than what the nation’s central authorities disclosed and fueling distrust around the world. “The…


Orange County’s Coronavirus Hospitalizations Continue to Drop

SANTA ANA—Orange County reported 361 new cases of COVID-19 and 33 additional deaths Feb. 14, bringing the county’s totals to 242,505 cases and 3,577 fatalities since the pandemic began. Hospitalizations due to the coronavirus continued to fall sharply in Orange County, declining from 839 Feb. 13 to 790, with the number of coronavirus patients in…