China registers 2,281 new coronavirus infections

The National Health Commission of China confirmed this Tuesday the detection of 2,338 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on the eve, 2,281 of them due to local contagion and the rest, imported.

The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Jilin (northeast, 1,902), Fujian (southeast, 110), Liaoning (northeast, 67), and Heilongjiang (northeast, 43).

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China, which applies a severe “zero tolerance” policy towards the new coronavirus, is going through a wave of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant that is causing record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.

Health authorities also reported today the detection of 2,432 asymptomatic cases, 2,313 of them local, although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining 57 infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country, most of them in Guangzhou, which is, together with Shanghai, one of the main gateways to China, which has kept its borders practically closed since March. of 2020.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Monday), 588 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 23,138, 42 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 134,564 people have been infected in the country and 4,638 have died, two of them last week, which were the first deaths recorded in more than a year.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than two million close contacts with those infected, of which 351,709 are still under observation.

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Source: Elcomercio

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