China announced on Sunday that an 87-year-old man in Beijing had died from COVID-19 & the first death since May & bringing the total official death toll to 5,227.In addition, officials announced that 24,215 new COVID-19 cases had been detected over the previous 24 hours.While China has an overall vaccination rate of more than 92%, that number is much lower among the elderly, particularly those aged over 80, where it falls to just 65%.Analysts see this gap as one reason why China continues to mostly keep its borders closed and impose strict lockdown measures on cities that report outbreaks.With a population of 1.4 billion, China has officially reported 286,197 cases since coronavirus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 & a figure that differs significantly from other official estimates.The World Health Organisation says there have been 9.4 million confirmed cases in China, while the Johns Hopkins University tracker puts the number at 3.3 million.The US, with its population of 331.9 million, has recorded 98.3 million cases and a million deaths, since the virus first appeared there in 2020.The post China announces its first COVID death in nearly six months first appeared on Ariana News.