Corona virus is once again spreading rapidly in China. A huge increase in cases of corona infection has been registered in many cities of the country including the capital Beijing. Daily cases of COVID-19 in China were recorded on Saturday, the highest in two years. Chinese officials said that there have been about two thousand new cases, including 20 infected in Beijing.
According to the news agency PTI, the National Health Commission said on Sunday that 1,807 new cases of local infection of COVID-19 were reported on the mainland of China on Saturday, while 131 patients are from other countries.
The commission said that among the new cases of local infection, 1,412 patients are from Jilin province, where China ordered the imposition of a lockdown last Friday in view of the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the capital Changchun. About 90 lakh population lives in this city.
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Apart from Changchun, the administration has also recently ordered a lockdown in Yucheng of Shandong province, which has a population of about five lakhs. Apart from Jilin, 175 new cases have been reported in Shandong, 62 in Guandong, 39 in Shanxi, 33 in Hebei, 23 in Jiangsu, 17 in Tianjin and 20 in Beijing.
Meanwhile, the situation continues to worsen in Hong Kong where authorities have confirmed 27,647 new cases of COVID-19. In the former British colony of Hong Kong, 87 people have died of COVID-19, which together has killed 3,729 people here.
After the rapid increase in the cases of corona, some restrictions of corona are also being imposed again in many cities. In many cities including Beijing, people have been forbidden from going out without essential work. Due to the increase in cases, the education of children in schools has also been disrupted.
According to the report, schools in Shanghai have been closed as a precaution in view of the increasing cases of corona in China. Along with this, lockdown has been imposed in many northeastern cities to prevent the spread of corona infection. There is an outbreak of Omicron and Delta variants in about 19 states in the country.
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