China records 1,184 coronavirus cases in one day

The National Health Commission of China confirmed this Monday the detection of 1,184 new coronavirus positives the day before -1,164 by local contagion-, in addition to 26,411 asymptomatic cases.

The provinces or cities with the highest number of cases of community transmission were Shanghai (east, 914), Jilin (northeast, 187), and Guangzhou (south, 19).

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Chinawhich 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.

Health authorities also reported today the detection of 26,411 asymptomatic cases, 26,345 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country such as Guangzhou (south) or Sichuan (southwest).

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Sunday), 1,378 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 22,395, 76 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 165,577 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, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 2.6 million close contacts with those infected, of which 457,580 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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