China’s health authorities announced today the first three deaths of patients due to complications of COVID-19 in Shanghai after a lockdown was imposed in the Chinese financial capital in late March.
The Asian giant, where authorities continue to pursue a “zero case” policy of the new coronavirus, has officially recorded only 4,641 deaths due to COVID-19 since SARS-CoV-2 was identified in its territory in Wuhan at the end of 2019.
In a statement uploaded to social networking sites, the city of Shanghai clarified that the three patients who succumbed were elderly with underlying diseases.
The two previous deaths from COVID-19 in China were reported in mid-March in Jilin Province (northeast), which borders North Korea.
In Shanghai, 19,831 asymptomatic cases of the virus were confirmed in the last 24 hours, from 21,582 on Saturday, while 2,417 symptomatic patients were registered, from 3,238 the previous day.
The Chinese financial capital has become a theater of the worst outbreak of the pandemic since the outbreak of the health crisis, with tens of thousands of cases being confirmed daily.
More than 200 million nucleic acid tests have been carried out in the metropolis since March 10, as part of the authorities’ effort to bring the situation under control.
Shanghai’s 25 million people have been severely restricted since late last month, and many are complaining about supply problems, among others.
SOURCE: AMPE
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