Beijing:– On Sunday, Shanghai had more than 8,200 local cases and this is nearly 70 percent of the nationwide total. A case infected with a new subtype of the Omicron variant according to the reports by Chinese State Media.
Since the peak of the first wave over two years ago, China reported 13,146 fresh Covid-119 cases on Sunday according to the reports by News Agency and this comes as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread to more than a dozen provinces.
According to the Bloomberg report Chinese State Media reported a case infected with a new subtype of the Omicron variant and according to the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China “There were 1,455 patients with symptoms…. 11,691 asyptomatic cases…. And no new deaths reported.”
An AFP report said that nearly all of the 25 million residents of Shanghai, the epicentre of China’s most severe Covid-19 outbreak, were under stay-at-home orders on Saturday.
The new iteration of SARS-CoV-2, isolated from a mild COVID-19 patient in a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, evolves from the BA. 1.1 branch of the omicron variant according to the English language Chinese Newspaper Global Times.
The report stated that shipping giant Maersk said Friday that some depots in Shanghai remained closed and trucking services would likely be hit further due to the lockdown and according to a report by Xinhua, the official state press agency of China, Vice Premier Sun Chunlan arrived in Shanghai to oversee prevention efforts. She ordered officials to curtail the outbreak “as soon as possible.” In the northeast province before this, Sun went to Jillin to oversee lockdown measures and she ordered Shanghai officials to “resolutely” conduct measures to stop the outbreak.
Published By :- Shubham Agarwal
Edited By :- Khushi Thakur
