The city of Shanghai, where traffic has been severely restricted since the beginning of the month, today announced seven deaths due to COVID-19 in 24 hours, bringing the total to ten victims of the current new coronavirus pandemic wave in the Chinese financial capital. .
The municipality announced three deaths yesterday Monday, a report surprisingly light in the city where daily around 20,000 new cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2 are confirmed.
However, the Chinese financial capital has become the scene of the worst outbreak of the pandemic in the Asian giant since the outbreak of the health crisis.
Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, which was identified in central China in late 2019, Beijing has managed – at least according to official figures – to keep the death toll below 5,000 dead and the number of infections below 190,000. . These numbers, dramatically lower than those reported internationally, are generally considered very undervalued.
The Omicron variant of the virus now severely affects the metropolis of 25 million inhabitants, who have been locked down indefinitely, under sometimes Spartan conditions.
Vaccination rates are alarmingly low in the elderly. Shanghai health officials acknowledged on Sunday that less than two-thirds of people over the age of 60 had been fully vaccinated and less than 40 percent had received a booster dose.
The seven people who died in the previous 24 hours were between 60 and 101 years old with underlying diseases, the Shanghai municipality announced today.
According to unconfirmed reports circulating on social media sites, deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Shanghai had already been reported in recent weeks, but the information was quickly censored by Chinese authorities.
In the past 24 hours, 17,332 asymptomatic cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed, while the number of symptomatic cases increased to 3,084, from 2,417 the previous day.
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