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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>Chinese district authorities have fired four officials after an elderly patient from a Shanghai care home was believed to be dead and loaded into a hearse.<\/b><\/p>\n

On Sunday, online videos emerged showing two people who appear to be mortuary workers placing the body bag into a vehicle.<\/p>\n

The workers are later seen pulling the bag open, and one can be heard saying the patient is still alive.<\/p>\n

The incident has sparked widespread anger on Chinese social media.<\/p>\n

Officials in the Shanghai district of Putuo confirmed the incident late on Monday, adding that the patient had since been taken to hospital and was in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

District authorities said five officials and one doctor were under investigation.<\/p>\n

Four officials, including the deputy director of the local civil affairs bureau and the director of the care home, were fired. A doctor identified only by their surname Tian, also had their medical license revoked.<\/p>\n

The patient’s identity is still unknown.<\/p>\n

Many online condemned the incident, with former editor-in-chief of state news outlet Hu Xijing calling it a “serious dereliction of duty that almost led to death”.<\/p>\n

Another commenter on social media site Weibo said it was a sign of the “chaos” happening in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

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Shanghai, China’s largest city and home to almost 25 million people, is now in its sixth week of restrictions aimed at curbing Covid cases, which began spiking again in March.<\/p>\n

Most people are still banned from leaving their homes for any reason – Covid-infected and their close contacts are forced to go to a state-run quarantine centre. Video has emerged of clashes between police and people being forced out of their homes.<\/p>\n

The BBC has previously reported evidence that authorities in Shanghai were struggling to deal with the outbreak.<\/p>\n

China is one of the last remaining nations still committed to eradicating Covid, in contrast to most of the world which is trying to live with the virus.<\/p>\n

But this zero-Covid policy has come under strain in recent weeks with the spread of the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n

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