Shanghai Registers First Fatalities From Current COVID-19 Outbreak After Mounting Reports of Unrecorded Deaths

Shanghai Registers First Fatalities From Current COVID-19 Outbreak After Mounting Reports of Unrecorded Deaths
Workers deliver oxygen cylinders outside a hospital during lockdown in Shanghai, China April 14, 2022. Aly Song/Reuters
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Authorities in Shanghai, which is grappling with its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic, reported its first deaths on April 18.

The three deaths were all elderly, hadn’t been vaccinated, and suffered from multiple severe diseases, including acute coronary syndrome, diabetes, high blood pressure, and sequelae of cerebral infarction, said Wu Qianyu, the city’s health commission inspector.

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