Beijing: Amidst increasing cases of new delta variant of Coronavirus in China, “Sublineage AY.4” (AY.4), the first Omicron variant of the virus has also come to the fore. The authorities then imposed travel restrictions on millions of people in the Eastern Province. Government channel ‘CGTN-TV’ reported on Monday that the first case of the Omicron form of the corona virus was reported in the city of Tianjin in northern China. It was said in the news that a new form of infection has been confirmed in a person who came from abroad. Information about the person’s citizenship or from which country he has returned has not been given at the moment.
Officials said that the person is not showing any symptoms of COVID-19 and after examination of his respiratory sample, the presence of Omicron form was detected on December 9. The man was under observation since his entry into Tianjin and is now undergoing treatment at the hospital, the news said. Meanwhile, China’s Zhejiang province is experiencing a major outbreak of the virus’s delta form sub-lineage AY.4, with 138 locally infected COVID between December 5 and 12, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. -19 cases were confirmed and an asymptomatic infected person was found.
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The news quoted an official from the Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention as saying that whole genome sequencing and analysis found that the cases in three cities were caused by the delta form sub-lineage AY.4, which is more infectious and Which has a higher viral load (amount of viruses) than the original novel coronavirus. Local authorities have banned public gatherings and travel outside the province to prevent further spread of the virus.