Among common chronic diseases, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases have the highest fatality rate in China, accounting for 41 percent of all-cause deaths.

It will also reduce traffic problems and fatality rates.

Chinese leadership noted at a recent meeting that the country has made a smooth transition in its COVID-19 response in a relatively short time and successfully pulled through the pandemic with the lowest fatality rate in the world.

Hailing the victory as "a miracle in the history of human civilization," the Chinese leadership noted at a recent meeting that the country has made a smooth transition in COVID-19 response in a relatively short time and successfully pulled through the pandemic with the lowest fatality rate in the world.

Having withstood waves of the pandemic while effectively safeguarding the life and health of its 1.4 billion population, the country has maintained the lowest COVID-19 infection and fatality rates among all major countries over the past three years.

Reflecting on the previous response strategy, Han and his colleagues in the office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs told Xinhua that those strict control measures were necessary in the past when the fatality rate and the proportion of severe cases remained high.

Since the onset of the pandemic, China has kept both the COVID infection rate and the fatality rate way lower than figures of other major countries.

Data from the association showed that there were 352 safety-related accidents occurring while people were doing outdoor adventure activities last year, up 113 percent year-on-year, among which 287 involved injury or fatality.

About the security and safety of autonomous cars, Asami said: "Zero fatality is the first target, and zero accidents are the second target.

But testing driverless cars in cold climates brings added challenges to an industry grappling with the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.

It was the first known fatality involving Tesla's Autopilot.

In response, the automaker issued a statement that the accident was only the first after 209 million kilometers of Autopilot driving, compared with the US average of one fatality for every 151 million km for all types of vehicles.

"This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza, which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1 percent, or a pandemic influenza similar to those in 1957 and 1968 rather than to a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which had a case fatality rate of 9-to-10 percent and 36 percent, respectively," said the article.

Huang said that there is much "we still need to know — the case fatality rate, for example, of the virus".