China reduces the 40,000 daily infections of coronavirus, 90% asymptomatic

The figures for new covid infections in China They were reduced after five days of consecutive increases after the National Health Commission reported today 38,645 cases detected the day before, of which 35,021 (90.6%) are asymptomatic according to the institution’s standards.

Among the 3,624 symptomatic cases, the vast majority (3,561) were caused by local transmission within the country’s borders, with a special incidence in areas such as Canton (southeast, 1,168 infections), Beijing (957) or Chongqing (center, 209).

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These three areas also accumulated more than half of the new asymptomatic cases registered in the country, although it should be remembered that the health authorities do not include them in their balance of confirmed cases unless they begin to manifest the required symptoms.

The Commission also indicated that 63 of the symptomatic cases and 161 of the asymptomatic cases were detected in travelers coming from abroad.

Throughout the country there are more than 362,000 people isolated under medical observation for being asymptomatic carriers of the virus, among whom almost 1,700 come from other territories.

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

People gather on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China’s zero covid policy were held the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (Photo by Héctor RETAMAL / AFP) (HECTOR RETAMAL /)

The National Health Commission also detailed that, throughout Monday, more than 2,786 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The number of active infected with symptoms in mainland China now stands at 33,967, 106 of whom are in serious condition.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic the country has registered a total of 315,248 infections – a figure that excludes asymptomatic people – and 5,233 deaths.

To date, some 12 million close contacts with infected people have been medically monitored, of which more than 1.9 million remain under quarantine.

Source: Elcomercio