The number of new COVID-19 infections in China has reached an all-time high.
According to the announcement by Chinese quarantine authorities on the 24th, the number of new infections in mainland China the previous day was 29,754 (excluding 1,690 duplicates which were reclassified from asymptomatic to symptomatic).
This is 781 more than the previous record of 28,973 recorded on April 13, during the Shanghai lockdown.
Guangdong province had the highest number of 8,054, but was 250 fewer than the previous day.
Chongqing followed with 7,548, up 682 from the previous day, and Sichuan (1,274) with an increase of 54.
Beijing, the capital, also had 1,622 people, 146 more than the previous day.
New infections in Xinjiang (961) and Hubei (946) also maintained an upward trend, approaching the 1,000 mark.
Shenyang, the largest city in northeast China, has entered a “lockdown-type quarantine” that strictly restricts population movements, such as PCR testing and the closure of densely populated indoor facilities, in nine districts of downtown for five days from the same day.
Beijing has also increased the intensity of the quarantine, such as sealing off an apartment complex where Corona 19 occurred the day before.
/yunhap news
