Covid Outbreak ‘Extremely Grim’ in Shanghai

“The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains ‘extremely grim’ amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“While China’s vaccination rate hovers around 90%, its domestically produced inactivated virus vaccines are seen as weaker than the mRNA vaccines such as those produced by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna that are used abroad, as well as in the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macao. Vaccination rates among the elderly are also much lower than the population at large, with only around half of those over 80 fully vaccinated.”