The Chinese city of Shanghai on Mondayꩲ reported seven more deaths due to COVID-19 as it struggles with a surge fuelled by the Omicron varia꧒nt of coronavirus.
Shanghai on Monday reported 20,629 new ⭕COVID-19 infections. The rest of the Chinese mainland only reported 642 new cases.
The Chinese city of Shanghai on Mondayꩲ reported seven more deaths due to COVID-19 as it struggles with a surge fuelled by the Omicron varia꧒nt of coronavirus.
Shanghai on Monday reported 20,629 new COVID-19 infections. The extent of oubreak in Shanghai, the financial🦩 hub of China, is highlighted by the fact that the rest of the Chinese mainland only repor🥃ted 642 new cases.
The seven deaths come a day 😼after the city reported three deaths. The national death toll has now inc𝔉reased to to 4,648.
As the O🐲micron variant continues to spread, China's health minister Ma Xiaowei on Monday pledged the toughest measures yet to prevent a major outbreak of COVID-19, ruling out any relaxations ahead of this year's 20th Communist Party🧸 Congress.
The once-in-five-year Congress of the CPC which is due to be held later this year has as🔴sumed significance as Xi, 68, is expected to get its endorsement for a third five-year tenure as the head of the Party, the military, and the presidency.
Vowing to continue the much-criticised Zero COVID policy, Ma in a front-page article published on Monday in party journal Study Times, urged the country to stick to the dyn🍨amic zero policy and take a clear-cut stand against erroneous thoughts of coexisting with the virus.
The bottom line is to prevent a large-scale rebound in cases and consolidate the hard-won results of pandemic contro⛦l to welcome the opening of t♋he CPC Congress, he said.
Last month, the city of Shanghai entered the most rigid lockdown in around two years and carried out testing for a populati🍷on of around 26 million.
With PTI input