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2022 - 3 - 14

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Nearly 30 million people under lockdown in China as Covid-19 surges (The Straits Times)

Tuesday's daily case count was the highest since the pandemic started. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

China has tethered tightly to a "zero-Covid-19" strategy, which pivots on hard localised lockdowns. A top Chinese medical expert, Dr Zhang Wenhong, has raised the prospect of softening the zero-Covid-19 strategy in the face of Omicron. But in the short term, he warned that any relaxation of mass testing and lockdowns was impossible. Scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons have cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which was first detected in China in late 2019 but has eased in much of the rest of the world. A Covid-19 forecasting system run by Lanzhou University in China’s north-west predicted that the current round of infections would eventually be brought under control in early April after an accumulated total of around 35,000 cases. Tuesday was the sixth day in a row that China reported more than 1,000 new virus cases. China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spreads across the country.

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Stealth omicron: China's Covid outbreak fueled by sub-variant; 5 ... (Hindustan Times)

On Tuesday China reported over 5200 new cases in 24 hours and nearly 30 million people are under lockdown already. | World News.

New Delhi Pakistan was plunged into a constitutional crisis on Sunday as Prime Minister Imran Khan called early elections after the deputy speaker of parliament blocked a no-confidence motion against him on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Like Delta, the BA.2 variant does not affect the lungs, ruling out symptoms such as loss of taste or smell, and shortness of breath. 1. The sub-variant is also known as the BA.2 variant and is different from the parent variant. These symptoms are likely to appear within two to three days after being infected with the virus. 3. Dizziness and fatigue are two of the most early-stage reported symptoms in patients infected by the stealth omicron. This variant is missing key mutations in the spike protein which are generally necessary for rapid PCR tests to identify the infection.

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China records largest increase of COVID-19 cases since pandemic ... (ABC News)

With millions of people in lockdown, China has recorded more than 3500 new cases of COVID-19 — with local health authorities saying a fast-spreading ...

- The number of new cases has more than doubled in a day with a 'stealth Omicron' variant spreading in the country - China has recorded 3,507 new cases of COVID-19 with the majority in the north-east province of Jilin China is facing its biggest outbreak of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic after its new daily cases more than doubled in a day.

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China's COVID-19 cases rise as Jilin outbreak grows (CNA)

BEIJING: China posted a steep jump in daily COVID-19 infections on Tuesday (Mar 15), with new cases more than doubling from a day earlier to a two-year high ...

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China COVID cases more than double in growing outbreak (Aljazeera.com)

Omicron fuels surge in cases that is testing limits of China's Zero COVID strategy.

The more than 14 million people who live in Jilin have been banned from leaving the province or travelling between its cities. China has reported more than 5,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, more than double the number reported on Monday and the highest daily count since the pandemic began more than two years ago. China COVID cases more than double in growing outbreak

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China Covid cases hit two-year high with millions in lockdown as ... (The Guardian)

Nearly 90% of new infections in northeast province of Jilin, while tens of millions of people across China remain confined to their homes.

There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 1,768 compared with 906 a day earlier. A total of 3,507 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms were reported on Monday across more than a dozen provinces and municipalities, the National Health Commission said, up from 1,337 a day earlier.

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