COVID-19 in Shanghai got worse, more deaths
City Shanghai China has 7 more deaths from COVID-19 as the outbreak of the disease is still bad.
On April 19, Shanghai reported 7 more cases death due to COVID-19 as China’s financial hub grapples with a record outbreak, bringing the country’s total death toll to 4,648 with more than 21,400 new cases, most of them from Shanghai.
Previously, on April 18, Shanghai recorded the first 3 deaths from COVID-19 in the current outbreak, according to data released by China’s National Health Commission.
The outbreak of the Omicron variant in China has not abated as the country reported 3,297 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections on April 18, including 3,084 cases in Shanghai – Xinhua news.
In addition to Shanghai, 18 other provincial-level regions of China The mainland has recorded new COVID-19 cases, including 88 in Jilin province.
Shanghai also reported 17,332 locally transmitted asymptomatic COVID-19 infections out of a total of 18,187 newly identified asymptomatic carriers in the mainland.
Currently, China has 30,384 people being treated for COVID-19. Meanwhile, as Omicron continues to spread, China’s Health Minister Ma Xiaowei on April 18 pledged the toughest measures to prevent a wider outbreak, ruling out any easing.
In a front-page article published in Study Times on April 18, Minister Ma Xiaowei affirmed that he would continue the policy of zero-COVID, calling on the country to comply and take a clear stance against misconceptions about living with COVID-19. The bottom line is to prevent large-scale outbreaks and strengthen pandemic response outcomes.
According to Ma Xiaowei, the Omicron mutant strain is very contagious and can create a large number of infected people in a short time, rapidly increasing the need for resources for epidemic prevention and control. The lack of isolation facilities is the most prominent problem. It is impossible to speak of an effective response to the variant, Mr. Ma said Omicron without solving the isolation problem. The health care system can only provide stable and continuous daily medical services to the people in the case of mild asymptomatic patients isolated in makeshift hospitals.
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