Covid has infected over 70% population in this Chinese city in recent surge
Live MintAround 70% of Shanghai's total population has been infected by COVID during the recent surge in China, a senior doctor at one of Shanghai's top hospitals expressed recently as reported by the state media on Tuesday. "Now the spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is very wide, and it may have reached 70 percent of the population, which is 20 to 30 times more than," Chen Erzhen, vice president at Ruijin Hospital and a member of Shanghai's Covid expert advisory panel, told Dajiangdong Studio, owned by the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily. Chen added that his Shanghai hospital was seeing 1,600 emergency admissions daily -- double the number prior to restrictions being lifted -- with 80 percent of them Covid patients. At Tongren Hospital in downtown Shanghai, AFP reporters saw patients receiving emergency medical attention outside the entrance of the overcrowded emergency ward on Tuesday.