Shanghai Official Covid Death Count Rises To 25
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China Covid Cases: China's largest city and commercial engine, Shanghai is inching towards reopening after weeks-long restrictions kept most of its 25 million people confined to their homes.
Shanghai logged eight official Covid-19 deaths on Thursday, reporting a mounting death toll even as daily cases appear to be tapering off and some residents are finally free to venture outside under an easing lockdown.
China's largest city and commercial engine is inching towards reopening after weeks-long restrictions kept most of its 25 million people confined to their homes.
Faced with the country's worst virus outbreak in two years, Shanghai doubled down on the Communist Party's unrelenting zero-Covid approach, with a heavy toll inflicted on business and morale.
The surge, driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, is the country's worst outbreak in two years and has challenged Beijing's inflexible, sequestering approach to a virus much of the world is learning to live alongside.
