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Virologists and CDC departments deny reemergence of COVID-19 original strain and Delta variant in China
By Global Times
Published: Dec 29, 2022 05:42 PM
Medical workers work in an air-inflated testing lab in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 5, 2022. The city of Chengdu has built five air-inflated laboratories for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing, providing a daily maximum testing capacity of 250,000 tubes.(Photo: Xinhua)
Virologists and disease prevention and control departments denied reemergence of COVID-19 original variants and Delta in China, after concerns that the "old" variants have caused an increase in COVID infections and some of the most severe cases showed white lungs in their CT scan results.
Real-time dynamic monitoring on COVID-19 shows no Delta variant was found to be prevalent in China, and no Delta variant was found to recombine with Omicron variant, Xu Wenbo, director of Institute of Viral Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China's CDC), said.
Since the beginning of December, China's CDC has completed the whole genome sequencing of 1,142 cases through sampling survey, and found that the Omicron variant strains of the subbranches BA.5.2 and B.7 are dominant strains in the country, and the two together accounted for more than 80 percent of all cases. The country also has seven subbranches of Omicron variants circulating, Xu noted.
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Government media.
Virologists and CDC departments deny reemergence of COVID-19 original strain and Delta variant in China
By Global Times
Published: Dec 29, 2022 05:42 PM
Medical workers work in an air-inflated testing lab in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept. 5, 2022. The city of Chengdu has built five air-inflated laboratories for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing, providing a daily maximum testing capacity of 250,000 tubes.(Photo: Xinhua)
Virologists and disease prevention and control departments denied reemergence of COVID-19 original variants and Delta in China, after concerns that the "old" variants have caused an increase in COVID infections and some of the most severe cases showed white lungs in their CT scan results.
Real-time dynamic monitoring on COVID-19 shows no Delta variant was found to be prevalent in China, and no Delta variant was found to recombine with Omicron variant, Xu Wenbo, director of Institute of Viral Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China's CDC), said.
Since the beginning of December, China's CDC has completed the whole genome sequencing of 1,142 cases through sampling survey, and found that the Omicron variant strains of the subbranches BA.5.2 and B.7 are dominant strains in the country, and the two together accounted for more than 80 percent of all cases. The country also has seven subbranches of Omicron variants circulating, Xu noted.
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