The highly contagious omicron BA.2 form of the virus is testing China's ability to maintain its zero-COVID approach.
COVID-19 cases in China's largest city of Shanghai are still rising with millions isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown.BEIJING — China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest city.
China on Monday reported more than 13,000 new cases nationwide in the previous 24 hours, of which nearly 12,000 were asymptomatic. About 9,000 of the cases were in Shanghai. The other large outbreak is in northeastern China’s Jilin province, where new cases topped 3,500.
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