China registers three deaths and 239 new cases of coronavirus, 226 of them local

The National Health Commission of China reported this Sunday three new deaths due to covid-19 and the detection of 239 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the day before, 226 of them due to local contagion.

The deaths were recorded in Shanghai, which has been the epicenter of outbreaks in the Asian country for two months and whose 26 million inhabitants remain in strict confinement.

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The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 166), Beijing (33), Sichuan (center), and Henan (center, 5).

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 1,550 asymptomatic cases, 1,492 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining thirteen infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (16:00 GMT on Saturday), 448 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 6,141, 383 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 221,804 people have been infected in the country and 5,209 have died.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 3.8 million close contacts with those infected, of which 342,128 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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