The death toll from the current outbreak of a new coronavirus pandemic in Shanghai has risen to 138 today despite a lockdown, with authorities in the Chinese financial capital announcing 51 deaths in the past 24 hours, an unprecedented number for the second day in a row.
They also reported that during the same period, almost 19,500 cases of the new coronavirus were confirmed (exactly 19,455, 2,472 with symptoms and 16,983 asymptomatic). Across China, 2,666 cases were reported, 14 of them in Beijing.
Hospitals across the country are treating 29,178 patients with COVID-19, according to figures from the National Health Commission, as the Ministry of Health is called in China.
The giant Asian country, facing the worst outbreak in recent weeks since the outbreak of the health crisis two years ago, has severely restricted almost all of its 25 million inhabitants since the beginning of April. Shanghai, a hotbed of infection. As of early March, some half a million infections have been confirmed in China’s largest urban center.
Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic, which was first identified in central China in late 2019, Beijing has managed – at least according to official data – to keep the death toll slightly below 5,000 (exactly 4,776) and the number of infections around 200,000 in total. These numbers, dramatically lower than those reported internationally, are generally considered very undervalued.
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