Mainland China saw the biggest daily rise in the number of coronavirus cases in five months Monday, the country’s health authority said. New infections in the Hebei area around Beijing have pushed up the numbers.
In addition, a county located in the northeast of the Heilongjiang district on Monday slipped into a lockout after new issues were reported.
Of the 85 new infections reported on January 10, 82 came from the province of Hebei, according to the National Health Commission (NHC). Liaoning province reported two new cases while Beijing reported one new case.
In addition, the country recorded 18 diseases imported from outside the country.
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China recorded 103 new cases of coronavirus, marking the highest level since 127 cases were reported on July 30.
Even though this marks a small part of what was seen at the height of the country’s uprising in early 2020, authorities are now racing against time to stage another uprising. avoid.
On Thursday, a team from the World Health Organization is arriving in China to investigate the origins of the virus. The date was reached by NHC on Monday, without illuminating their trip.
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China has been accused of covering up the intensity of the uprising that first erupted in Wuhan in 2019. Many critics have said that China’s first response to the virus is to some extent dependent on global distribution.
As winter wore around the country, new things were reported across areas. The port city of Dalian in the Liaoning region blamed the cases on contaminated foreign vessels, considering that the gene sequence of the new cases was different from what they saw in a previous revolution. in the country.
The total number of diseases in Mainland China is 87,536. The death toll remains unchanged at 4,634 deaths.