China's new COVID-19 cases more than double as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. A fast-spreading variant known as “stealth omicron” is testing China's zero-tolerance strategy.
Residents line up for COVID-19 test in Yantai city in eastern China's Shandong province Monday, March 14, 2022. China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.
BEIJING — China’s new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. The National Health Commission said 3,507 new locally spread cases had been identified in the latest 24-hour period, up from 1,337 a day earlier., which had kept the virus at bay since the deadly initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. China has recorded more than 10,000 cases in the first two weeks of March, far exceeding previous flare-ups.
No new deaths have been reported in the multiple outbreaks across China, and the case count remains low compared to many other places in the world. The U.K.
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