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China sees COVID-19 surges caused by multiple,'invisible' sources of infection
By Fan Anqi Published: Feb 21, 2022 09:05 PM
As Hohhot of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region became the latest area to fall victim to another COVID-19 spike fueled by the Delta variant, China reported 71 new local confirmed cases in eight provincial-level regions on Sunday.
Experts noted that these new surges, different from previous rounds, are caused by multiple sources of infection from overseas and are more "invisible," a new challenge that China will face in light of a growing number of mild cases.
Hohhot of Inner Mongolia in the country's northern border area has seen some 161 people infected in six days. The outbreak is believed to have been imported from overseas, and it then spread among local communities in a hidden way, triggered by two wedding banquets held over a week before the first infection was reported.
The virus sequence of the first three cases showed that they are of the Delta variant, undetected in the databases of both local and imported cases in China during previous outbreaks...
China sees COVID-19 surges caused by multiple,'invisible' sources of infection
By Fan Anqi Published: Feb 21, 2022 09:05 PM
As Hohhot of North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region became the latest area to fall victim to another COVID-19 spike fueled by the Delta variant, China reported 71 new local confirmed cases in eight provincial-level regions on Sunday.
Experts noted that these new surges, different from previous rounds, are caused by multiple sources of infection from overseas and are more "invisible," a new challenge that China will face in light of a growing number of mild cases.
Hohhot of Inner Mongolia in the country's northern border area has seen some 161 people infected in six days. The outbreak is believed to have been imported from overseas, and it then spread among local communities in a hidden way, triggered by two wedding banquets held over a week before the first infection was reported.
The virus sequence of the first three cases showed that they are of the Delta variant, undetected in the databases of both local and imported cases in China during previous outbreaks...
