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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Close to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight "Zero-Covid" policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday.
  China has previously listed only those Covid patients who succumbed with respiratory failure as having died of Covid.
  In the month after December 8, China reported only 37 deaths from local Covid cases, according to figures released on the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention website - even as the outbreak has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums amid apparent Covid surges in multiple cities.
  
  
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context: I wonder how many people have died of Covid since early December in China. >
  
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