China records one death and 193 new coronavirus cases, 176 local

The National Health Commission of China reported this Saturday a new death due to covid-19 and the detection of 201 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on the eve, 181 of them due to local contagion.

The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 84), Beijing (58), Sichuan (center, 32), Tianjin (north, 6), and Henan (center, 1).

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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.

Health authorities also reported today the detection of 1,010 asymptomatic cases, 951 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although beijing it does not count them as confirmed cases unless they manifest symptoms.

The remaining 59 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 Friday), 391 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in the China continental amounts to 4,715, 292 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 222,976 people have been infected in the country and 5,219 have died.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 3.9 million close contacts with those infected, of which 258,717 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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