SHANGHAI, China – China’s National Health Commission today announced the detection of 503 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus this Thursday, 441 of them due to local contagion.
These local infections have occurred in multiple parts of the country, with a special incidence in areas such as Inner Mongolia (north, 207), Xinjiang (northwest, 53), or Guangzhou (southeast, 34).
The remaining 62 symptomatic cases were found among travelers from abroad at various points of entry into the country.
Health authorities also announced today the detection of 1,422 asymptomatic cases, 1,307 of local contagion, although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.
The total of this type of infections under observation is 11,043, of which 850 come from other territories.
China, which applies a strict “zero tolerance” policy towards the new coronavirus, has suffered waves of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant in recent months that have caused a record number of infections not seen since the beginning of the pandemic in the first semester. 2020.
The National Health Commission also specified that, until the last local midnight on Saturday, 12:00, 184 patients were discharged after successfully passing the covid.
The total number of infected people with symptoms in mainland China is 3,618, of which 13 are severe.
According to the institute’s reports, 253,141 people have been infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 244,297 have managed to recover and 5,226 have died, even if the total number of infected people excludes asymptomatics.
To date, medical checks have been carried out on over 6.3 million close contacts with the infected, of which almost 275,000 are still under observation.
