Shanghai Tightens Lockdown Rules After Cases Rise to Record
- A nurse died of asthma after hospital closed for Covid control
- Officials ask all residents not yet tested to do so by 6 p.m.
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Shanghai’s new Covid-19 cases jumped more than 60% in a single day, hitting a record 1,609 on Friday, even as authorities widened restrictions that have limited access to food and medical care with devastating consequences.
Zhou Shengni died of asthma Wednesday night after being turned away from Shanghai East Hospital, where she worked as a nurse, according to a statement from the medical center in the city’s Pudong district. The emergency department was closed for disinfection under Covid control rules and she subsequently died in another hospital, it said.