- The Japanese country raises the number of deaths from covid in the city of Shanghai to 285.
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| Workers wear protective suits in covid-19 confinement areas in Shanghai, China, on March 14, 2022, Hector AFP |
The National Health Commission of China announced this Thursday the death of 47 people in Shanghai from covid. With these data, the figures rise to 4,923 deaths since the epidemic began in China.
In total, Shanghai adds 285 deaths since the confinement began more than a month ago as a result of a sharp increase in cases.
The Japanese country, which applies a severe "zero tolerance" policy toward the new coronavirus, is going through a wave of omicron outbreaks that are leaving record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.
The Commission has reported 1,503 new positive cases of the coronavirus this Thursday, 1,494 of them due to local contagion and the rest imported. The localities with the highest number of cases of community transmission were Shanghai with 1,292, Jilin with 56, and Beijing with 48.
Almost 5,000 deceased
Health authorities have reported the detection of 9,864 asymptomatic cases, 9,330 of them local. Infections have also been detected among travelers from abroad in various regions of the country.
The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 25,506,399 of them in serious condition. According to the institution's accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 208,584 people have been infected in the country and 4,923 have died.
To date, the medical follow-up has been carried out on more than three million close contacts with those infected, of which more than 400,000 are still under observation.