Shanghai reports three deaths among COVID patients on April 17
(Corrects variety of checks in paragraph 3 to 200 million, not 20 million)
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The Chinese language monetary hub of Shanghai stated three individuals contaminated with COVID-19 died on Sunday, the primary time throughout the present outbreak that it reported deaths amongst coronavirus sufferers.
The town reported 19,831 new day by day asymptomatic COVID-19 circumstances on April 17, down from 21,582 on the day before today. New symptomatic circumstances stood at 2,417, down from 3,238.
The town has carried out greater than 200 million nucleic acid checks since March 10 in a bid to curb China’s greatest COVID-19 outbreak for the reason that coronavirus was first found in Wuhan in late 2019.
(Reporting by David Stanway, Wang Jing and Roxanne Liu; Enhancing by Kim Coghill)
