BEIJING: China recorded its highest daily increase in local COVID-19 cases in 21 months, as infections more than doubled in Xian, China’s latest city. covid hot spot.
The city of 13 million, which entered its fourth day of lockdown, detected 155 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms for Saturday, up from 75 a day earlier, official data showed on Sunday.
This brought the national daily count to 158, the highest reported by China in containing the nationwide outbreak in early 2020.
Jian, with 485 local symptomatic cases reported for the period December 9-25, has taken heavy-handed measures to contain the outbreak in line with Beijing’s policy that any flare-up should be contained as soon as possible.
Residents could not leave the city without approval from the employer or local authorities and several rounds of mass testing were conducted to identify cases.
The city has declared no infection due to omicron variant, although Chinese authorities have reported a handful of omicron infections in international travelers and southern China.
Including imported cases, mainland China confirmed 206 new cases on December 25, up from 140 the day before.
There were no new deaths, leaving the cumulative death toll at 4,636. As of 25 December, Mainland China had 101,077 confirmed cases.
The city of 13 million, which entered its fourth day of lockdown, detected 155 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms for Saturday, up from 75 a day earlier, official data showed on Sunday.
This brought the national daily count to 158, the highest reported by China in containing the nationwide outbreak in early 2020.
Jian, with 485 local symptomatic cases reported for the period December 9-25, has taken heavy-handed measures to contain the outbreak in line with Beijing’s policy that any flare-up should be contained as soon as possible.
Residents could not leave the city without approval from the employer or local authorities and several rounds of mass testing were conducted to identify cases.
The city has declared no infection due to omicron variant, although Chinese authorities have reported a handful of omicron infections in international travelers and southern China.
Including imported cases, mainland China confirmed 206 new cases on December 25, up from 140 the day before.
There were no new deaths, leaving the cumulative death toll at 4,636. As of 25 December, Mainland China had 101,077 confirmed cases.
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