China Announces 39 COVID Fatalities in Shanghai, Most Since 2020

COVID-19 is surging in Mainland China, where the virus first emerged in December 2019 after it had not reported any deaths in more than one year from January 2021 to late this March.

On Sunday, China announced 39 fatalities, all in Shanghai and the most since 41 on March 1, 2020. In the past week, there have been 89 fatalities for a total of 4,725 in 88th, behind Sudan with 4,929. At the end of last year, the death count was 4,636.

Cases also have been surging in China, nearly doubling since the start of the year. In 2021, there were 102,083 compared with 98,571 so far this year. The total is 200,654 in 110th. On April 16, there were 3,896, the most since 5,090 Feb. 13, 2020.