Shanghai announced three deaths from covid-19 on Mondaythe first deaths since the Chinese megacity began a prolonged confinement that has generated anger and protests among citizens.
“All three people deteriorated after being admitted to hospital and died after efforts to revive them proved ineffective.”, indicated the city council in a social network.
The dead are two women aged 89 and 91 and a 91-year-old man. according to the local government, which indicated that they all had health problems such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Shanghai, China’s largest city with 25 million people, has been in lockdown since March with the country’s worst covid-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
The business center reported 22,248 new local cases on Monday, of which 2,417 were symptomaticaccording to the municipal health commission.
The level of infections is relatively low compared to other outbreaks in the world, but it reflects a trend in recent weeks, with tens of thousands of cases a day, most of them asymptomatic.
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Even so, the authorities insisted on maintaining the policy of zero tolerance for the virus, with restrictions on movement and isolation of infected people, even if they do not have symptoms.
The residents of Shanghai, one of the richest and most cosmopolitan cities in China, have complained about the restrictions due to the lack of food, the inadequate conditions in the quarantine centers and the drastic application of the measures.
Users on social networks criticized the authorities for filming the death of a dog at the hands of health workers because its owners tested positive for the coronavirus, and for the policy of separating infected children from their parents, although this measure has been eased. .
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In a sign of discontent, videos posted online showed some villagers arguing with police in protective suits who ordered them to give up their homes to infected patients.. Other videos have shown the desperation of the villagers, some of whom crossed the barricades to demand food.
China, where the coronavirus was first detected in late 2019, had reduced infections to a minimum thanks to its zero-Covid policy with mass testing, travel restrictions and targeted lockdowns.
But the world’s most populous country has recently struggled to contain outbreaks in several cities following the emergence of the contagious omicron variant. The last time China reported new deaths from covid was on March 19 when two people died in the northeastern city of Jilin, which were the first in the country in more than a year.
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