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State of Health China: Shanghai reports three COVID-19 deaths
Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 18 Apr 2022, 06:01 am Print
Shanghai COVID Deaths File image by Stand News via Wikimedia Commons
Shanghai: China has reported three deaths due to COVID-19 in Shanghai city, the first time casualty was reported in the city ever since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March.
A release from the city health commission said the victims were aged between 89 and 91 and unvaccinated, reports BBC.
Shanghai officials were quoted as saying by BBC that only 38% of residents over 60 are fully vaccinated.
Shanghai has been under strict lockdown for the past several weeks now.
Until now, China had maintained that no-one died of Covid in the city - a claim that has increasingly come into question, BBC reported.
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