The vice president at a Shanghai hospital has said up to 70% of the megacity's residents may have been infected with Covid after China's relaxed its ‘zero-Covid’ measures.
As much as 70% of residents in Shanghai may have been infected with Covid, state media reported today.in infections after the relaxation of its ‘zero-Covid’ measures.
Chen Erzhen, vice president at Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, estimated that most of the the megacity’s 25 million people may have been infected. WHO has urged Chinese health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the outbreak.
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