This content was published on 08 August 2022 – 04:41
Shanghai (China), Aug 8 (EFE).- The western Chinese region of Tibet announced the detection of four new cases of covid after 920 days without registering any contagion, local press reports today.
According to the Sohu news portal, these are four inhabitants from other parts of the region who were visiting Burang county, which borders Nepal and India.
Despite the fact that in other parts of China the outbreaks caused by the omicron variant have already caused tens of thousands of infections, the discovery of these four cases in Tibet is news because, since the start of the pandemic, the region had only registered a single infection, in January 2020.
The four infections were detected during a round of routine covid tests, and at the moment they do not present any symptoms.
In response, local authorities have confined their close contacts – and their close contacts – and temporarily closed places that those infected had passed through, such as hotels, restaurants or temples.
China maintains a strict zero tolerance policy against the coronavirus that has allowed it to prevail in various outbreaks since the start of the pandemic through confinements, massive tests or the almost total closure of its borders.
Although the arrival of the omicron variant has put that strategy in check, Beijing insists that it will continue to use it in the face of any regrowth that may arise. EFE
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