The balance sheet in the Chinese metropolis is 87 deaths. And the city of Beijing has called to “act without waiting” after a positive case rebound.
Le Monde with AFP
The death record due to COVID-19 in Shanghai has experienced a sharp increase, Sunday, April 24, despite severe restrictions. The most populous city in China has announced the death of 39 people in twenty-four hours, bringing at least 87 the total number since the beginning of the containment of its population.
China, which has been faced in recent weeks its worst epidemic outbreak for two years, has confined since early April, almost all 25 million economic capital, Shanghai, epicenter of contagion. The 39 deaths concern seniors with pathologies such as hypertension, clarified the authorities.
Nearly 22,000 new positive cases were recorded on Sunday in Shanghai, which has been nearly half a million cases since the beginning of March.
“The situation is serious”
Since the beginning of the epidemic, initially detected in central China at the end of 2019, the country has succeeded in limiting the total balance sheet to less than 5,000 deaths and less than 200,000 contaminations, if we Holds official figures, much lower than international counts. But the Omicron variant struck the inhabitants of Shanghai, placed under confinement for an indefinite period, under sometimes spartan conditions. Low mortality challenges, especially since vaccination rates are low among the oldest.
More than a thousand kilometers, the capital Beijing has, for its part, expressed 22 new cases and warned that an “urgent” action was necessary to stop the contagion. “The situation is serious, the whole city must act without waiting,” said Saturday before the press a Beijing health manager, Pang Xinghuo, belonging that the virus has probably been propagated in “invisible way” the latter days.