As China faces its first national COVID surge, fears over a new mutant strain of the virus forming have mounted as health officials confirm over a third of omicron versions detected in the country …
Chinese health authorities are racing to catch new mutant COVID strains, as more than a third of Omicron variants detected in the crushing wave of infections slamming the country have resulted in larger outbreaks.
Over the past three months, China has detected over 130 sublineages of Omicron, including BF.7, a variant incredibly adept at evading immunity and believed to be behind the current surge in infections. Xu Wenbo, head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that China plans to track the virus centers around three city hospitals in each province. There, samples will be taken from sick walk-in patients as well as from patients who die.China plans to track the virus centers around three city hospitals in each province, Chinese health officials said last week.
Every new infection creates a new chance for the virus to mutate. With COVID spreading rapidly in China — as many as 248 million people — nearly 18% of China’s population — came down with the virus in the first 20 days of December. The country of 1.4 billion has done a complete reversal of its “zero COVID” policy earlier this month. The abrupt policy shift has caused China’s largest outbreak of COVID infections since the start of the pandemic and left
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