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According to the most recent weekly update, the COVID-19 pandemic's seventh wave may be cresting since case counts, positive rates, hospitalizations, fatalities, and breakouts are all on the decline.

Public Health Ontario stated on August 4 that during the week ending July 30, there were 306 hospital admissions and 46 deaths associated with COVID-19. This is a drop from the week ending July 23 when there were 463 hospitalizations and 75 fatalities.

Between June 30 and July 30, COVID-19 hospitalizations ranged from 29 to 87 patients per day. This comprises people who were admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 or whose hospital stay was prolonged as a result of COVID-19.

There have been between two and fifteen deaths every day over the past 30 days that were either brought on by COVID or to which it contributed.

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Due to the fact that severe outcomes have been found to lag behind other indicators, such as case counts, it is probable that both deaths and hospitalizations will rise over the next weeks.

In addition to a drop from 12,092 cases for the week ending July 23, there were 10,982 cases in Ontario that were verified through limited lab testing for the week ending July 30.

In Ontario, the percent positive rate has been stuck at 14 and 15% for the past three weeks. This number should be closer to three percent, which shows that testing is reaching enough of the population to provide a reliable case count.

In high-risk environments, outbreaks decreased from 216 active outbreaks on July 23 to 193 today.

With COVID-19, 1,474 patients are being treated in hospitals. Due to COVID-19, 139 patients—56 of whom are on ventilators—are now being treated in ICUs in Ontario.

In Ontario, 12.15 million people (82.5% of the population) have received at least two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and nearly 7.45 million people (50.5% of the population) have received at least three doses.

The province has reported 13,673 fatalities and 1,373,548 confirmed cases of COVID since the pandemic began.

According to most reports, China's lockdowns have been relentless, unpredictable, and unpleasant because Mr. Xi gave his consent. They have led to food shortages, restricted access to healthcare, severely impacted the economy, and even caused sporadic protests.

Zero-Covid, though, has been clung to by Beijing, and it now defines Mr. Xi's authority and the authoritarian bureaucracy at his disposal more than virtually any other strategy.

Confound or persuade?

Over 280 million people have been affected by China's partial or total lockdown of 152 prefecture-level cities since March, according to the BBC. However, 114 of those have only been secured since August as the Party Congress drew near..

Beijing is currently the only significant city that has evaded a total lockdown. Half-jokingly, locals point out that the capital has achieved this by occasionally locking down the rest of the nation. However, some Beijing commercial malls and housing complexes were sealed down on Thursday as a result of a sharp increase in instances.

Since China's fourth phase of Covid control measures began in March, the BBC began collecting data at that time. Comparing lockdowns between phases is challenging since official language changes can skew definitions and, in turn, the related data.

Additionally, Chinese authorities have undoubtedly come up with creative new methods to define lockdowns. In order to make the measures more digestible, misleading official jargon was used. The measures had grown so divisive and feared.

In order to clarify, they utilised terms like "at-home quiet," "stasis management," and "halt any needless movement."

Then there was "temporary societal control," which according to the authorities was not a "lockdown" but rather a restriction on movement that somehow wouldn't interfere with "the natural order of production and existence." However, "the public was urged not to venture outside unless absolutely necessary."

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Another new term that originated in the southern region of Guangdong is "enclosed management." It denotes the presence of checkpoints at the entrances and exits and the enclosure of the village, district, or residential complex. Passes are required for entry and exit for both people and vehicles. Non-residents and non-workers are not permitted inside the perimeter. But people were informed that there was no lockdown.

Officials quickly developed a substitute for track-and-trace techniques called a "temporal and spatial overlapper" when they began to grate. The term, which has sci-fi undertones, describes a person whose location has, as determined by their phone, crossed paths with another person who is Covid-positive.

The governor of Dancheng County in northern Henan province issued a warning instead of advising people not to travel to their hometowns during the Spring Festival, saying that "those who come home with malevolent intent would first be quarantined, then be jailed."

China is currently in what Beijing refers to as the "scientific and precise dynamic zero" phase, the meaning of which is unclear. It is intended to be an improvement on the previous "dynamic zero" strategy.