The town hall had reported on Monday of three first victims, while the country’s economic capital has been strict containment since the end of March.
Le Monde with AFP
The city of Shanghai, confined since the end of March for an indefinite period and in sometimes spartan conditions, announced, Tuesday, April 19, seven new CVIV-19 deaths in the last twenty-four hours, wearing ten deaths in the Chinese economic capital.
The town hall had reported its first three dead Monday, a surprisingly light assessment in a metropolis with 25 million inhabitants and which counts some 20,000 new cases of contamination every day, mainly due to the Omicron Variant. The seven new deceased people were aged 60 to 101 and suffered from pre-existing diseases, according to the town hall.
A low mortality that challenges
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, initially detected in the center of China at the end of 2019, Beijing has been able to limit the total balance sheet at less than 5,000 deaths, and less than 190,000 contaminations, if we stick to the official figures, very lower than international counts.
This low mortality challenges, especially since vaccination rates are low among the oldest Chinese. Municipal health services officials have indicated Sunday that less than two-thirds of the over 60s had received two injections, and less than 40% a booster dose.
According to unfortunate messages on social networks, deaths have already been allocated to COVID in recent weeks in Shanghai, but this information has been censored by the authorities.