Beijing, Apr 16 (EFE) .- The Chinese National Health Commission confirmed this Saturday the detection of 3,896 new positives for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus the day before, 3,867 of them due to local contagion and the rest, imported.
The provinces with the highest number of community transmission cases were Shanghai (east, 3,590), Jilin (northeast, 195), Heilongjiang (northeast, 25), and Guangzhou (south, 24).
China, which applies a severe “zero tolerance” policy towards the new coronavirus, is going through a wave of outbreaks attributed to the omicron variant that is causing record numbers of infections not seen since the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020.
Health authorities also reported today the detection of 20,895 asymptomatic cases, 20,813 of them local (the majority in Shanghai), although Beijing does not count them as confirmed cases unless they show symptoms.
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The remaining 29 infections, found among travelers from abroad, were detected in various regions of the country.
The National Health Commission also detailed that, until last local midnight (4:00 p.m. GMT on Friday), 2,818 patients were discharged following successfully overcoming covid.
The total number of active infected in mainland China amounts to 25,956, 74 of them in serious condition.
According to the institution’s accounts, since the start of the pandemic, 178,764 people have been infected in the country and 4,638 have died, the last two in March, which were the first deaths recorded in more than a year.
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To date, medical follow-up has been carried out on more than 2.8 million close contacts with those infected, of which 438,427 are still under observation.
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