Shanghai reported seven new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours

The National Health Commission of the Chinese regime announced on Tuesday that at least seven people have died as a result of COVID-19 in Shanghai, bringing the death toll of the current wave to ten since March 1.

The deceased were all elderly, aged between 60 and 101, and suffered from a variety of ailments, including acute coronary syndrome, as well as diseases such as diabetes and cerebral infarction, which disqualified them from being vaccinated.

Shanghai City authorities have recorded 20,416 new cases in the past 24 hours, down 8.2 percent from the previous day. Thus, up to 3,084 people showed symptoms, 21.6 percent more than the previous day, according to the newspaper 'South China Morning Post'.

In addition, a total of 1,912 patients with COVID-19 have been discharged from different hospitals until this Monday after their recovery, according to data from the Commission, bringing the total number of people with medical discharge to 153,319, as reported by the Xinhua news agency.

The city was completely paralyzed on April 5, following the failure of the two-phase quarantine on both sides of the Huangpu River, Pudong and Puxi, in a closure that has caused severe shortages of food and other essential supplies.

Shanghai recorded 24,000 new coronavirus infections on Monday as part of the emergence, in early March, of a huge outbreak of the omicron variant of the coronavirus that has caused the confinement of the city's 25 million inhabitants.

The Chinese National Health Commission announced on Monday the death of three people from covid in Shanghai, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic to 4,641.

China had counted its last two deaths from covid last March in the northeastern province of Jilin.

According to the local newspaper Global Times, the three people killed in Shanghai, a city that has been confined for more than a month as a result of a sharp increase in cases, were people between 89 and 91 years of age with “underlying health problems.”

China is experiencing a wave of outbreaks attributed to the Ómicron variant that is causing record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.

Thus, the Commission today reported 2,742 new positive cases of the coronavirus detected the day before, 2,723 of them due to local contagion and the rest, imported.

The provinces with the highest number of cases of community transmission were Shanghai (east, 2,417) Jilin (northeast, 166), Zhejiang (southeast, 34) and Heilongjiang (northeast, 30).

(With information from Europa Press)

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