China reports more than 13,000 new COVID-19 cases as outbreak emerges
Beijing:
China on Sunday reported 13,146 Covid cases, the highest since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago, as the highly transmissible variant of Omicron spread to more than a dozen provinces.
“There have been 1,455 patients with symptoms…. 11,691 asymptomatic cases… and no new deaths have been reported,” the National Health Commission said in a statement. .
In China’s financial hub Shanghai, the epicenter of the country’s most severe Covid outbreak, nearly all of its 25 million residents were ordered to stay at home on Saturday as officials urgently curb the spread of the disease.
Shanghai’s restrictive regulations threaten to cripple supply chains, as shipping giant Maersk said on Friday that some warehouses in the city remain closed and trucking services may be more affected by the outage.
China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, is one of the last places left to follow a non-Covid approach to the pandemic.
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