new Delhi: China reported 13,146 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest since the peak of the first wave two years ago, AFP news agency reported. It comes as a highly permeable Omicron variant spread over more than a dozen provinces.
Chinese state media reported a new subtype infected case omicron Variant according to a Bloomberg report.
“There were 1,455 patients with symptoms …. 11,691 asymptomatic cases … and no new deaths,” the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China said in a statement.
About 25 million residents of Shanghai, the epicenter of China’s most severe Covid-19 outbreak, were ordered to stay home on Saturday, an AFP report said.
Shanghai had more than 8,200 local cases on Sunday. This is about 70 percent of the nationwide total.
While this is relatively low by global standards, it is troubling for a country that has reported only double-digit daily cases in the past two years.
English-language Chinese newspaper Global Times reported that the new iteration of SARS-CoV-2, a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, has been isolated from a mild COVID-19 patient, Omicron’s BA. 1.1 develops from the branch. type.
Shipping giant Maersk said on Friday that some depots in Shanghai remained closed and trucking services were likely to be further affected, the report said.
According to a report by China’s official state press agency Xinhua, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan arrived in Shanghai to oversee prevention efforts. She ordered officials to contain the outbreak “as quickly as possible”.
Earlier, Sun had gone to Jilin to oversee the lockdown measures in the northeastern province. She ordered Shanghai authorities to take measures “strongly” to contain the outbreak.
According to a post on the official WeChat account, authorities in the city of Sanya in Hainan province suspended all transportation to prevent the spread of Kovid, Bloomberg reported.
A four-day lockdown was initially announced for mass testing in Shanghai. But now, as per reports, the lockdown is likely to be extended till the end of next week or more.
Novel coronavirus was first detected in China in 2019. The country is one of the last remaining places after a zero-Covid approach to the pandemic.
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