China: Shanghai reports first Covid-19 deaths since the start current Covid-19 outbreak
China, where a strict zero tolerance approach contained the virus until the more infectious delta and omicron variants emerged last year.
Now with the country grappling with the worst Covid outbreak since Wuhan in early 2020, doubts about the effectiveness of China’s policy to eliminate the virus have been growing.
The lockdown and repeated testing of Shanghai’s 25 million residents hasn’t yet stopped infections as the city reported more than 22,000 cases Sunday, taking the total number of people infected with the virus to more than 300,000.
Yet Beijing has vowed repeatedly to stick with the so-called Covid Zero policy. A front-page commentary in the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily, on Monday called for stricter implementation of Covid control and prevention measures, warning a relaxation of efforts would risk crippling China’s health care system.
United States
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Cases: 46 252 513
Deaths: 750 423
Recovered: 0
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India
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Cases: 34 321 025
Deaths: 459 652
Recovered: 0
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Brazil
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Cases: 21 835 785
Deaths: 608 235
Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom
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Cases: 9 215 683
Deaths: 141 607
Recovered: 0
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Russia
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Cases: 8 494 589
Deaths: 237 619
Recovered: 0
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