Official figures earlier said there had been no Covid-linked deaths in Shanghai since 2020.
The timing of this announcement is odd.
It happened to dozens of elderly patients at a single hospital in Shanghai. But they were not official Covid deaths, according to the authorities. They died of underlying problems, apparently.People with underlying health problems died after testing positive but the death rate remained at zero.
Since the discovery of an Omicron-led outbreak three weeks ago, the city has been under strict lockdown which has angered residents.
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