With strict measures, China has mostly been able to bring the corona virus under control quickly in the past two years. Now experts fear that Omikron could push the protective measures to their limits.
Beijing – China has reported the highest number of infections since the first corona outbreak in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan.
As the state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday, 402 local infections with symptoms were discovered nationwide on Wednesday – almost twice as many as the previous day. There were also 435 asymptomatic infections and 277 cases imported from abroad.
After the first major wave of corona, which originated in Wuhan more than two years ago, China was able to quickly bring the virus under control with strict measures. Since then, the second largest economy has only experienced outbreaks limited to individual regions. But since omicron was first discovered in the eastern Chinese port city of Tianjin at the beginning of January, health experts have feared that the more contagious corona variant could push Chinese protective measures to their limits.
With Beijing and Shanghai, individual cases were recently discovered in the country’s two most important cities. New infections were reported from seven provinces and regions on Wednesday alone. The northeast Chinese province of Jilin was particularly hard hit, where there were 165 symptomatic infections. dpa
