Covid-19 in China: Shanghai records its first three deaths since the start of the reconfinement

Chinese authorities have announced that three people have died since the start of containment in Shanghai, they were between 89 and 91 years old.

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The city of Shanghai reports its first three deaths linked to the Omicron wave which led to the confinement of the megalopolis.

The three victims are aged 89 to 91 and were not vaccinated according to health authorities.

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These three elderly people, two women and a man, are the first deaths reported by the authorities since the beginning of the

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Dark jacket, blue masks, the representative of the local health commission reads the press release.

These patients who died in hospital suffered from other pathologies, such as acute coronary syndrome, severe hypertension, diabetes or cancer, making them ineligible for vaccines.

This announcement comes as the authorities have just relaunched calls for vaccination.

Just under 40% of Shanghainese over the age of 60 have already received a third dose of one of the two inactivated Chinese vaccines distributed to the population.

“Sealed” areas subject to daily PCR testing

Three deaths out of 372,000 cases of Covid-19 infections have been reported since March 1, the vast majority of which are asymptomatic cases.

Despite the slight decline in the number of new cases, the 25 million inhabitants remain subject to a strict lockdown in the Chinese economic capital.

A senior health affairs official said on Monday that people living in so-called “sealed” areas where one or more infections have been detected in the past seven days will be required to take daily PCR tests.

More than 200 million tests have been carried out since March 10.

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