China’s health authorities have reported two COVID-19 deaths, the first since January 2021.
As new variant continue to spread across the U.S., we talk with doctors about how to live with the virus now and in the future.China's health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years driven by a surge in the highly transmissible omicron variant.
Both fatalities occurred in elderly patients and were the result of their underlying conditions, Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, told a news briefing on Saturday. One of them had not been vaccinated for COVID-19, she said. A health worker conducts a swab test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a residential compound in Shanghai on March 18, 2022. It has pressed on with its tried-and-true policy of lockdowns and mass testing of millions of people as part of a successful, if burdensome, "zero-COVID" strategy since the initial outbreak in Wuhan in 2019.