Her health principles Of China announced them today first three deaths patients due to complications of COVID-19 in Shanghai after it was imposed lockdown in the Chinese financial capital in late March.
The Asian giant, where the authorities continue to apply “zero case” policy of the new coronavirus, has officially registered only 4,641 deaths due to COVID-19 after SARS-CoV-2 was identified in its territory, in the city of Wuhan, at the end of 2019.
In a statement uploaded to social networking sites, the Shanghai municipality clarified that the three patients who succumbed they 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 they were confirmed 19,831 asymptomatic cases of the virus in the last 24 hours, from 21,582 on Saturday, while 2,417 symptomatic patients were recorded, from 3,238 the previous day.
The Chinese financial capital has now been transformed into theater of the worst outbreak of the pandemic since the onset 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.
The 25 million inhabitants of Shanghai remain under strict restriction since the end of last month and many are complaining about supply problems, among others.
Professor Galiatsatos at SKAI for Shanghai: I hope they do not hide something from us …
Reflection on unprecedented hardness prohibitive in Shanghai expressed through SKAI o Panagis Galiatsatos – Pulmonologist, Intensive Care Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, in the shadow of the… order for zero outbreaks in the city by Wednesday. Mr. Galiatsatos expressed the hope that what is happening is a matter of culture, and not that China is hiding a new mutation of the coronavirus.
“I find it very strange what happened in Shanghai. We have been in the pandemic for two years now. “And science, research has reached a point where we know how to live with COVID and we know how to ‘keep’ it like a cold,” said the pulmonologist. in SKAI.
As the professor underlined, “we have vaccines, medicines, masks… What we see in Shanghai, many doctor friends tell me that is very strangeΚάν You do this in the beginning when we were afraid, we did not know what the virus was and what harm it would do to us. One hypothesis is that so is their culture they want neither new cases nor a patient, we have seen this in China many times. The other case is: has something happened that we are not told? Two years ago we saw this with COVID (with announcements) through doctors on the internet. Maybe there is a new mutation and they do not tell us. I hope it is the first, their culture, but it is very strange, they do not need them, we have the tools to live with COVID “.
“Is it their culture or will something worse come out?” I do not want to believe that they are hiding us again, for the second time in two years, another secret. That is what I hope “noted Mr. Galiatsatos.
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