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China reports first Covid-19 death in more than a year
Updated On: 20 March, 2022 08:46 AM IST | Beijing | Agencies
Both fatalities occurred in elderly patients and were the result of their underlying conditions, Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, told a news briefing on Saturday. One of them had not been vaccinated for Covid-19, he said
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A man is tested as a measure against Covid-19 in a lockeddown neighbourhood after the detection of new cases in Shanghai. Pic/AFP
China`s health authorities reported two Covid-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The deaths, both in northeastern Jilin province, bring the country`s Coronavirus death toll to 4,638.
Both fatalities occurred in elderly patients and were the result of their underlying conditions, Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, told a news briefing on Saturday. One of them had not been vaccinated for Covid-19, he said.
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