China records 193 new coronavirus cases, 176 local

The National Health Commission of China reported this Friday the detection of 193 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the day before, 176 of them due to local contagion.

The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 88), Beijing (50), Sichuan (center, 20), and Tianjin (north, 1).

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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 990 asymptomatic cases, 939 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining 51 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 (4:00 p.m. GMT on Thursday), 309 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 4,906, 280 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 222,775 people have been infected in the country and 5,218 have died.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 3.9 million close contacts with those infected, of which 273,700 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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