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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>China has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March.<\/b><\/p>\n

A release from the city health commission said the victims were aged between 89 and 91 and unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

Shanghai officials said only 38% of residents over 60 are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

The city is now due to enter another round of mass testing, which means a strict lockdown will continue into a fourth week for most residents.<\/p>\n

Until now, China had maintained that no-one died of Covid in the city – a claim that has increasingly come into question.<\/p>\n

Monday’s deaths were also the first Covid-linked fatalities to be officially acknowledged by authorities in the entire country since March 2020.<\/p>\n

The timing of this announcement is odd.<\/p>\n

Firstly because, up to this point, it was a miraculous stretch of credulity to think that no-one in a city of almost 25 million people had succumbed to this wave of the virus.<\/p>\n

But second, and more importantly, we know that people HAVE already died after contracting Covid in this outbreak. We have reported that.<\/p>\n

It happened to dozens of elderly patients at a single hospital in Shanghai. But they were not official Covid deaths, according to the authorities. They died of underlying problems, apparently.<\/p>\n

So what’s changed? The answer is nothing seems to have changed in terms of clinical assessments.<\/p>\n

People with underlying health problems died after testing positive but the death rate remained at zero.<\/p>\n

Now three people have died in very similar circumstances but the official death toll has increased.<\/p>\n

It’s fair to ask – is this because the authorities have decided they need to make public the dangers of this vast wave of a virus against which barely half of China’s over 60’s are fully vaccinated?<\/p>\n

Because up to now this was a virus that Shanghai’s authorities had warned could devastate the population – otherwise why else would they lock down the city – yet it hadn’t officially killed anyone.<\/p>\n

In a statement announcing the deaths, Shanghai’s Health Commission said that the three people died in hospital on Sunday despite “full efforts to resuscitate them”.<\/p>\n

It added that all three people had underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n

Since the discovery of an Omicron-led outbreak three weeks ago, the city has been under strict lockdown, which has angered residents.<\/p>\n

Millions have been confined to their homes, with anyone testing positive being sent to quarantine centres.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks many have taken to social media to complain about the restrictions and the lack of food supplies.<\/p>\n

Omicron vs Zero-Covid: How long can China hold on?<\/p>\n

The economic cost of China’s zero-Covid policy<\/p>\n

People have had to order in food and water and wait for government drop-offs of vegetables, meat and eggs, and analysts say many are running low on supplies.<\/p>\n

The lockdown extension has overwhelmed delivery services, grocery shop websites and even the distribution of government supplies.<\/p>\n

But with more than 20,000 new cases a day, authorities are struggling. The city in recent weeks has converted exhibition halls and schools into quarantine centres, and set up makeshift hospitals.<\/p>\n

The recent surge in cases in China, although small compared to some countries, is a significant challenge to China’s “zero-Covid” strategy, which uses swift lockdowns and aggressive restrictions to contain any outbreak.<\/p>\n

The policy sets China apart from most other countries which are trying to live with the virus.<\/p>\n

But the increased transmissibility and milder nature of the Omicron variant has led to questions over whether the current strategy is sustainable in the long run.<\/p>\n

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