China registers 30,000 new cases of coronavirus, 86% without symptoms

The figures for new covid infections in China They fell this Sunday after the National Health Commission reported today 30,014 cases detected the day before, of which 25,696 (86%) are asymptomatic according to the institution’s standards.

It should be noted that, in recent days, several cities have closed numerous PCR sampling booths and reduced the frequency with which they test the population, which could result in the discovery of fewer positives.

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Among the 4,318 symptomatic cases, the vast majority (4,247) occurred due to local transmission within the country’s borders, with a special incidence in areas such as Canton (southeast, 1,686), Beijing (1,021) and Chongqing (center, 247).

These areas also concentrated the 25,696 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 71 of the symptomatic cases and 219 of the asymptomatic cases were detected in travelers coming from abroad.

Throughout the country there are more than 385,000 people isolated under medical observation for being asymptomatic carriers of the virus, among which around 1,780 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.

The National Health Commission also detailed that, throughout Sunday, more than 3,913 patients were discharged after successfully overcoming covid.

The number of active infected with symptoms in mainland China now stands at 40,633, 106 of whom are in serious condition.

Since the end of November, protests have been registered in several cities in China over exhaustion due to restrictions imposed to try to contain outbreaks.

Cantón, which registers thousands of new cases a day, last week witnessed riots between residents of neighborhoods affected by outbreaks and security forces dressed in PPE suits.

According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic the country has registered a total of 340,483 infections – a figure that excludes asymptomatic people – and 5,235 deaths.

To date, some 14 million close contacts with infected people have been medically monitored, of which more than 1.9 million remain under some type of quarantine.

Source: Elcomercio

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