China registers 1,995 new cases of coronavirus and two deaths

China reported this Monday 1,995 new cases of covid detected the day before compared to 2,097 the day before, according to the National Health Commission, which also announced two deaths from the disease.

In recent times, Chinese cities have canceled the constant PCR test campaigns for all their residents that had been common for months, which translates into the detection of fewer infected people.

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In addition, the health authorities recently stopped counting asymptomatic cases because they “It is not possible to determine its actual amount.”

Of the 1,995 cases detected on Saturday, 1,918 are local and 77 imported, with most of the infections by local transmission located in Guangzhou (southeast), Beijing and Chongqing (center).

According to the Commission’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic the country has registered a total of 380,453 infections and 5,237 deaths, with 35,298 active cases -253 of them serious- at this time.

In recent days, the official press has begun to downplay the risk of the omicron variant through numerous articles and interviews with experts, a plot twist that accompanies the relaxation of some of the strictest measures of the policy of ‘zero covid‘, in force for almost three years.

The authorities have already affirmed that the “terms“so that the country”adjustment” your measurements in this “new situation” in which the virus causes fewer deaths, although they have also announced a plan to accelerate vaccination of the elderly, one of the most vulnerable groups but at the same time more reluctant to be inoculated.

Likewise, the Chinese Executive announced this month that it would allow those infected with asymptomatic or mild symptoms to isolate themselves in their homes – until now, transfer to a quarantine center was mandatory – and indicated that it will no longer be necessary to have a negative covid test to enter in most places and establishments, with the exception of hospitals or schools.

The changes came after the weariness of the restrictions crystallized in protests in various parts of the country after the death of ten people in an apparently confined building in Urumqi (northwest), with slogans such as “I don’t want PCR, I want to eat” either “Give me back my freedom.”

The Government defends that it has saved millions of lives through the ‘zero covid’, which consists of the isolation of all those infected and their close contacts, strict border controls, partial or total confinement in places where cases are detected and constant PCR tests to the population.

Source: Elcomercio

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