World News | China reports 75 new COVID-19 cases

Beijing [China], July 3 (ANI): China reported 75 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. Of the 75 infections, Anhui province reported 61, according to the National Health Commission.

Meanwhile, two new cases of COVID-19 were recently detected in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s emphasis on a zero-COVID policy during a visit to the city last week.

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Two port workers in Wuhan reportedly showed signs of asymptomatic infection in the first confirmed cases in a month, Chinese publication The Daily Mail reported.

COVID-19 has returned to the central Chinese city just days after Xi Jinping visited the sprawling city and reiterated his desire to see entire cities locked down and severely restricted to contain the virus, the Daily Mail reported. desire.

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China’s Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) reported 30 new confirmed locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the Macau Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center said on Saturday.

A total of 56 people tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, 23 of whom were found in quarantine, the center said.

As of Friday, 694 people had tested positive in the Macau Special Administrative Region’s latest outbreak since June 19, 424 of whom were asymptomatic, Xinhua reported.

Mainland China reported 183 local COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 38 confirmed cases and 145 asymptomatic cases. The daily number of cases on Friday expanded from the previous day, which surpassed 100 for the first time in 15 days.

Since June 26, Si County, Suzhou City, East China’s Anhui Province, has reported 43 confirmed cases of locally transmitted COVID-19.

The province also reported 236 asymptomatic cases during this period. As of noon on Friday, 14,151 people have been quarantined, and the entire county of Si County is under closed management.

The county has conducted three rounds of large-scale COVID-19 testing and is currently in the fourth round, Xinhua reported.

Speaking of the zero-epidemic policy during an inspection tour in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Tuesday, Xi said the anti-epidemic measures were formulated by the Party Central Committee based on the nature and purpose of the party and the country’s national conditions. condition.

Xi Jinping said that China’s response measures and anti-epidemic policies have protected the lives and health of the people to the greatest extent possible.

China’s president has defended its zero-coronavirus policy as the world’s second-largest economy continues to impose strict measures to stamp out the epidemic within its borders, despite warnings from the World Health Organization that such practices are unsustainable.

In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, Chinese authorities have tried everything possible, including the controversial zero-coronavirus policy, to reduce the spread of the virus. But all in vain. The number of cases is rising rapidly, seriously affecting normal life in China.

China’s well-known “zero virus” strategy, which only recently got the country out of an outbreak, is falling apart as rapidly rising cases again force massive lockdowns like the one in 2020.

According to Asian Lite International, a Chinese study published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases showed that the Chinese vaccine failed to detect the Omicron subvariant.

About 400 million people in China are affected, more than a quarter of the country’s population. As many as 45 cities, including financial hub Shanghai, were recently put under strict lockdown as a Chinese vaccine failed to tame the coronavirus.

Due to strict COVID-19 measures and a series of lockdowns, due to strict lockdowns and strict testing procedures in different parts of the country, China incurred huge economic expenditures in the first half of 2022 and had a severe impact on the livelihoods of its residents.

Recent reports suggest that China’s zero-coronavirus policy is based on digital identification: the health code. The controversial code reportedly records a person’s contact information, identification and recent travel history, all in the name of virus prevention. (ANI)

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