Shanghai, China is been going through its worst covid outbreak. Amid the outbreak, china reported three on Sunday and more on Tuesday deaths in Shanghai. Shanghai is becoming the hotspot of china’s latest covid outbreak.
The death is reported for the first time since Shanghai went into the lockdown in march.
The city health commission said in a release, that the dead were aged between 89 and 91 and were unvaccinated. The patients “became severely ill after admission to hospital, and died after ineffective rescue efforts, with the direct cause of death being underlying diseases”, the commission said. Also, the officials of shanghai said out of 60 only 38 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated.
Under china’s zero covid policy, the city is due under another round of mass testing and tough lockdowns.
Shanghai’s residents have been in strict lockdown now many inhabitants have taken to the social media complaining about the restrictions imposed and food shortages. People have had to order food and water and wait for the government to drop-offs vegetables, meat and eggs.
Authorities are facing problems and are overwhelmed with more than 20,000 new cases a day. The city in recent weeks has transformed exhibition halls and schools into quarantine centres and set up makeshift hospitals.
