Share:China has acknowledged that the latest COVID-19 outbreak in the country is “complicated,” as the sweeping Delta variant pushed the number of daily infections to the highest point since January. China’s overall virus tally since December 2019 now stands at 93,498, including 4,636 deaths. Most of the new local cases – 61 – were in the eastern Jiangsu province, which has been the epicenter of China’s new virus outbreak. Infections have been reported in at least 15 provinces since the highly contagious Delta variant was found in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, last month. “The latest resurgence of COVID-19 in China, caused mainly by the Delta variant, is more complicated, but the epidemic is generally controllable,” He Qinghua, a senior NHC official, told a news conference on Thursday evening.

Source: The Nation August 06, 2021 07:41 UTC