China lists Covid-19 behind only AIDS as second deadly category B infectious disease In 2020

China included COVID-19 statistics in a newly published national statutory infectious diseases report, listing the new coronavirus as the second-highest deadly infectious disease after HIV/AIDS among category B infectious diseases in 2020. In 2020, China reported 87,071 COVID-19 cases and 4,634 deaths, with 6.2 infections and 0.33 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the annual report released by the National Health Commission (NHC). The death rate in the report refers to the proportion of COVID-19 deaths among the whole population. Based on the data, the coronavirus fatality rate — the number of deaths divided by the number of confirmed cases — was about 5.3% during 2020. Recently, China added just two more COVID-19 deaths and 3,054 confirmed cases in 2021, putting its overall fatality rate at 5.1%, the second-highest in the world. Currently, Mexico has the highest COVID-19 fatality rate at 9%. The U.S. reported a total of 543,000 deaths among 30 million infection...