China registers 35 new cases of coronavirus, 11 due to local contagion

The National Health Commission of China announced today the detection of 35 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Friday, eleven of them due to local contagion in Inner Mongolia (north, 5), Liaoning (northeast, 4), Beijing (1) and Shanghai (east, 1). ).

The health authorities also reported today the detection of 169 asymptomatic cases, 41 by local contagion, although beijing it does not count them as confirmed cases unless they manifest symptoms.

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The total of this type of infections under observation is 1,585, of which 523 come from other territories.

The remaining 128 cases were found among travelers from abroad at various points of entry into the country.

China, which applies a severe “zero tolerance” policy towards the new coronavirus, has suffered in the last three months a wave of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant that has caused record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Friday), 72 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The total number of active infections in mainland China amounts to 914, nine of whom are serious.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 225,207 people have been infected in the country, among whom 219,067 have managed to heal and 5,226 have died, although the total number of infected people excludes asymptomatic people.

To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 4.2 million close contacts with those infected, of which 107,576 are still under observation.

Source: Elcomercio

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