Shanghai reports first deaths in current COVID-19 outbreak | AP News

While China has an overall vaccination rate of around 90%, a low rate among the elderly remains a concern.

While highly contagious, the omicron BA.2 variant driving the Shanghai outbreak is less lethal than the previous delta variant. However, China’s low death toll from COVID-19, which is blamed for more than 988,000 deaths in the United States, has raised questions about how China’s authoritarian and often highly secretive government counts such fatalities.

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