Beijing: China’s Shanghai has reported the first deaths of its surging Covid-19 outbreak since the beginning of the lockdown imposed this month. As per Shanghai’s municipal government, three people died on Sunday. They were aged between 89 and 91 and all had underlying diseases.
According to a Bloomberg report, the newly reported deaths are the first since two people passed away in mid-March in the northeastern province of Jilin. They were the first Covid fatalities in more than a year in China, where a strict zero tolerance approach contained the virus until the more infectious delta and omicron variants emerged last year.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Caixin and other local media, two elderly-care facilities in Shanghai have been battling outbreaks triggered by the omicron variant, and fatalities have occurred. Until now, no deaths have been reported officially.
On Sunday, China reported 26,155 new cases, all but 3,529 of which had no symptoms. Shanghai accounted for 95% of the total, or 24,820, including 3,238 with no symptoms. The city has reported more than 300,000 cases since late March. Shanghai began easing restrictions last week, though a health official warned the city didn’t have its outbreak under control.
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