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Shanghai hospital pays the price


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2022 Apr 10, 8:02, Beijing
In this photo released by the family of Shen Peiming, Shen Peiming, 71, eats a banana as a family member attends to her at her bed side at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care hospital on Sept. 24, 2019. Shen died Sunday morning, April 3, 2022, at the hospital, without her loved ones by her side. Her family, unable to visit because of pandemic restrictions, is unsure of the circumstances of her death. The hospital had reported a COVID-19 outbreak, but Shen had tested negative, as of last week. (Photo credit: AP)

A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China’s stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach amid an escalating outbreak in the city of 26 million people.

Multiple patients have died at the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care hospital, relatives of patients told The Associated Press. They say their loved ones weren’t properly cared for after caretakers who came into contact with the virus were taken away to be quarantined, in adherence to the strict pandemic regulations, depleting the hospital of staff.

Family members have taken to social media to plea for help and answers and are demanding to see surveillance video from inside the facility after getting little to no information from the hospital.

The conditions and deaths at the hospital are a sharp rebuke of China’s strategy of sticking to a zero-COVID policy as it deals with the outbreak in Shanghai in which most of the infected people don’t have symptoms. With a focus on forcing positive cases and close contacts into designated collective quarantine facilities, the costs of zero-COVID may be outweighing the risk of getting sick.


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