China registers 1,235 new coronavirus infections, 1,173 by local transmission

The National Health Commission of China confirmed this Tuesday the detection of 1,235 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the day before, 1,173 of them due to local contagion and the rest imported.

The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Jilin (northeast, 792), Shanghai (east, 268) and Heilongjiang (northeast, 17).

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China, which applies a severe policy of “zero tolerance” 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.

The health authorities also reported today the detection of 15,355 asymptomatic cases, 15,239 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), even though beijing it does not count them as confirmed cases unless they manifest symptoms.

The remaining 62 infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country, most of them in Sichuan.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Monday), 1,899 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in the China continental amounts to 25,060, 63 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 157,378 people have been infected in the country and 4,638 have died, the last two in March, which were the first deaths recorded in more than a year.

To date, more than 2.4 million close contacts with those infected have been medically monitored, of which 387,696 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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