East China Normal University has issued at least seven obituaries after the new year during the latest wave of COVID-19 infections. Five of the deceased were Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. Among them, Tang Jianwu, a distinguished professor of the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine Coastal Science, was only 52 years old.
Tang, an estuarine and coastal wetland ecologist and former president of the Institute of Eco-Chongming, died in Shanghai on Jan. 4.
