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More than a month of confinement in Shanghai, which adds seven deaths from coronavirus


China’s National Health Commission announced on Wednesday the death by covid of seven people in the eastern metropolis of Shanghaibringing the total death toll since the epidemic began in China to 4,655.

The city, which recorded its first deaths from covid on Monday, adds a total of 17 deceased since the beginning of the lockdown more than a month ago following a sharp increase in cases.

China is going through a wave of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant that is causing record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.

Thus, the Commission today reported 2,761 new positive cases of the coronavirus detected the day before -for the 3,316 the day before-, 2,753 of them due to local contagion and the rest, imported.

The localities with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 2,494), Jilin (northeast, 133), Heilongjiang (northeast, 45), Jiangxi (southeast, 25), and Guangzhou (south, 14).

The health authorities also reported this Wednesday of the detection of 17,166 asymptomatic cases, 17,066 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Tuesday), 2,365 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

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According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 191,112 people have been infected in the country and 4,655 have died.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 2.9 million close contacts with those infected, of which 412,624 are still under observation.


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