Covid: China, another 7 deaths and 20,000 infections in Shanghai

(ANSA) – BEIJING, APRIL 19 – China has reported seven more deaths from Covid-19 in Shanghai, where local authorities, after the first three deaths announced yesterday, reported that they are people between 60 and 101 years old , all with various chronic diseases.

The city, with its 26 million residents, is at the heart of the Omicron variant wave behind the weeks-long lockdown, while Beijing insists the ‘zero-Covid’ policy with strict lockdowns, mass testing and long quarantines than in the for the past two years, it has averted casualties and serious public health crises. Shanghai, albeit with declining numbers on Sunday, reported 3,084 cases and 17,332 asymptomatic on Monday. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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