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The deaths of three elderly patients are the city’s first since authorities imposed a lockdown to combat China’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. 

Shanghai, China, has announced the first deaths in a COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down the financial hub for weeks and sparked widespread outrage and rare protests. 

The city said in a statement on Monday that three people infected with COVID-19 died the day before. 

All three were elderly individuals with underlying medical conditions. 

They “deteriorated into severe cases after being admitted to the hospital, and died after all efforts to resuscitate them proved ineffective,” according to the city. 

It went on to say that two of the deceased were women aged 89 and 91, and the third was a 91-year-old man.

The deaths were confirmed by the municipal health commission. 

On Monday, it also reported 22,248 domestic cases of COVID-19. 

While the figures are low in comparison to other global outbreaks, they continue a trend that has seen the city log tens of thousands of daily cases, the majority of which are asymptomatic. 

In response, authorities have reinforced Beijing’s long-standing zero-tolerance policy toward the virus, vowing to maintain onerous travel restrictions and isolate anyone who tests positive – even if they show no signs of illness. 

Residents in Shanghai, one of China’s wealthiest and most cosmopolitan cities, have complained about food shortages, spartan quarantine conditions, and heavy-handed enforcement.

Social media users slammed authorities for the videotaped killing of a pet corgi by a health worker, as well as the now-softened policy of separating infected children from their virus-free parents. 

Videos posted online last week showed some residents squabbling with hazmat-suited police who ordered them to surrender their homes to patients, providing a rare glimpse into the unrest. 

Other video and audio clips have shown increasing desperation, with people breaking through barricades and demanding food. 

Despite the backlash, China, where the coronavirus was discovered in late 2019, has maintained its tried-and-true zero-COVID policy of mass testing, travel restrictions, and targeted lockdowns.

However, the world’s most populous country has recently struggled to contain outbreaks in multiple regions, which have been largely driven by the rapidly spreading Omicron variant. 

On March 19, the country reported two new COVID-19 deaths – two people in the northeastern rust-belt province of Jilin – the first such deaths in more than a year.