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Added on the 03/04/2022 04:30:33 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The streets are quiet Sunday in China's cosmopolitan business hub of Shanghai. The city reported 39 Covid deaths Sunday, official data showed, its highest daily toll since a weeks-long lockdown started. IMAGES
Images of a few vehicles driving on a quiet street of Shanghai as the city reports seven new deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday, after the metropolis recorded hundreds of thousands of cases during a weeks-long lockdown. City authorities revealed the first virus deaths on Monday, with Tuesday's fatalities bringing the total official toll to just 10, despite the scale of the outbreak. IMAGES
Images of people walking in protective gear in a quiet street of Shanghai as the city reports that three people had died from Covid-19. This is the first official announcement of deaths from the latest outbreak that plunged the megacity into a weeks-long lockdown, sparking widespread anger and rare protests. IMAGES
Images of a quiet Shanghai street Tuesday morning. Since March, more than 100,000 cases in Shanghai have led to a lockdown of the city's 25 million inhabitants. The United States announced it had ordered all non-essential employees at its Shanghai consulate to leave, while voicing concerns for the safety of Americans in China as the government enforces hard lockdowns to contain Covid-19. IMAGES
Images of reduced traffic on a street in China's largest city Shanghai under a lattice of restrictions -- which fall short of a citywide shutdown. China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases nationwide on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant spreads across a country which has tethered tightly to a 'zero-Covid' strategy. IMAGES