A total of 13,146 corona infections were reported in China on Sunday, the highest number since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago, health authorities report.
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This involved 1,455 patients with symptoms and 11,691 asymptomatic cases. “No new deaths have been reported,” the National Health Commission said in a statement. The highly contagious omikron variant has spread to more than a dozen provinces.
Almost all 25 million inhabitants of Shanghai, the economic capital of China, have been in lockdown since Saturday. In recent days, the city has become the epicenter of a new wave of omikron infections.
Tens of millions of Chinese are also in lockdown in the northeast of the country.
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