China orders for mass testing in Wuhan as covid cases emerge after a year
Kathmandu, August 3. Authorities in Wuhan have been ordered to test the population for covid as cases have started emerging after a year.
After three cases were reported on Monday, the city wide testing has been ordered.
The National Health Commission said that 90 new cases had been confirmed the previous day, 61 locally spread ones and 29 among people who had recently arrived from abroad.
Most of the local cases are said to be in Jiangsu province, where an outbreak started at the airport in Nanjing. Five other provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai reported new local cases in single digits. Beijing reported a total of five cases in recent days.
Many of the cases reported have been widely spreading. The virus is identified as the highly contagious delta variant of coronavirus.
While government-affiliated scientists say that Chinese vaccines are less effective against the new strains of the virus, they do offer some amount of protection.
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