(ANSA) – BEIJING, APRIL 21 – Shanghai recorded another 8 deaths due to Covid-19 on Wednesday and over 18,000 cases, of which 2,634 confirmed and 15,861 asymptomatic, according to local authorities: although down by over a thousand units compared to On Tuesday, relatively high numbers confirm the city as China’s most severe Omicron variant outbreak.
The entire country, in fact, always reported 2,830 domestic transmission infections on Wednesday: net of Shanghai, 95 cases refer to Jilin, while the remaining cases are in 16 different provinces and regions. Asymptomatic carriers amounted to 16,552 and deaths rose to 4,663 in over two years of the pandemic.
As for the eight deaths (25 in total), the authorities of the Chinese financial hub spoke of an average age of 77.5 years and of people with serious chronic diseases.
With the epidemic that seems to have reached its peak, the city of 26 million inhabitants is moving towards a slow reopening with particular attention to the resumption of production activities: the Tesla and Volkswagen plants, for example, are among those of the 666 companies reported by the municipality for the restart of production scheduled for this week. A total of around 12 million people have been allowed to leave their homes in the past few days by easing the total lockdown, but keeping tight travel restrictions.
During the total blockade of Shanghai, social media, in spite of censorship, filled with complaints and videos of protest and protest against the management of the crisis, targeting the multiple rounds of mass testing, the lack of access to food. and the inability to undergo medical treatment not related to Covid. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
I have been working in the news industry for over 10 years now and I have worked for some of the biggest news websites in the world. My focus has always been on entertainment news, but I also cover a range of other topics. I am currently an author at Global happenings and I love writing about all things pop-culture related.
