Shanghai has the first death from COVID-19

Reuters reported, Shanghai announced that 3 COVID-19 patients died on April 17.

According to Bloomberg, the three people who died were aged between 89 and 91 and all had underlying diseases. The new deaths reported in Shanghai are the first since two people died from COVID-19 in mid-March in northeastern China’s Jilin province. The cases in Jilin are the first deaths from COVID-19 in more than a year in China.

The city recorded a daily number of asymptomatic COVID-19 cases of 19,831 on April 17, down from 21,582 cases recorded a day earlier. The number of symptomatic cases stood at 2,417, down from 3,238 a day earlier.

Shanghai has deployed more than 200 million nucleic acid tests since March 10 in an effort to control the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in China since the first case was detected in Wuhan in late 2019.

In addition to Shanghai, many municipalities in China have severely restricted movement to control the pandemic COVID-19. Over the weekend, the city of Xi’an was partially locked down for four days after the city of 13 million people detected more than 40 infections. The central city of Zhengzhou also sealed off the airport for two weeks and began mass testing in the area from April 18. Wuhu city in Anhui province also sealed off the downtown area after detecting only 1 case.