Many patients have died in recent days at a large Shanghai elderly-care hospital that is battling a Covid-19 outbreak, according to people familiar with the situation, a sign that a new wave of infections is hitting China’s financial capital harder than authorities have publicly disclosed.
Shanghai’s government hasn’t reported any Covid-related deaths or outbreaks in its hundreds of elderly-care centers since cases began climbing in the city in March.
Six replacement orderlies at the city’s Donghai Elderly Care Hospital, brought in after previous caretakers were sent away to quarantine, told The Wall Street Journal that they had witnessed or heard of the recent removal of several bodies from the facility, where they said at least 100 patients had tested positive for Covid-19…
Zhang Aizhen, an orderly who has worked in the hospital for more than a decade, said she was put on a bus on the night of March 19 with dozens of staff, including nurses and doctors, after she tested positive. She said she spent a week in a quarantine hotel, before being moved to a makeshift quarantine center in a stadium last weekend.
“Orderlies, nurses and doctors, we’re all infected,” she said.
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