Shanghai reports first official COVID deaths since beginning of lockdown
Shanghai officials reported the first deaths attributed to an overwhelming wave of new coronavirus infections so fierce that it triggeredfor the city of 25 million people late last month. Three patients, all aged between 89 and 91, died on Sunday, according to the Shanghai Health Commission. All three had underlying health conditions, the municipal government said.
Aside from a pair of deaths reported in Jilin province in March, Sunday’s deaths mark the first COVID-19 fatalities officially reported by China in more than a year, according to Bloomberg News. But widespread infection rates and the general difficulty of determining cause of death have provoked suspicion that the city may be underreporting its COVID-19 mortality rate, the
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