China registers one death and 102 new cases of coronavirus, 80 of them local

The National Health Commission of China reported this Friday one death and the detection of 102 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, 80 of them due to local contagion.

Almost all of the deaths caused by this outbreak in recent months have been registered in Shanghai, which has become the epicenter of outbreaks in the Asian country for two months and whose 26 million inhabitants remain mostly under strict confinement.

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The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 45), Beijing (22), and Tianjin (north, 7).

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 342 asymptomatic cases, 274 of them local (mostly in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.

The remaining 22 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), 216 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 3,272, 169 of them in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 223,837 people have been infected in the country and 5,226 have died.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than four million close contacts with those infected, of which 204,521 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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