The Chinese government revealed, on Tuesday, that it had monitored record levels of coronavirus infections, with the country recording 28,127 cases during the past 24 hours.
The Associated Press quoted local officials as saying that there were 25,902 asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province, a powerful export-oriented manufacturing hub, is the latest infection hot spot.
The province had recorded 9,222 cases as of Tuesday, including 9,241 asymptomatic cases, or nearly a third of the national total. This included 8,241 asymptomatic patients.
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In the context, the Chinese government adheres to the “zero Covid (Corona)” policy, amid concern from businessmen and economists.
The Chinese authorities are imposing sudden closures, large-scale examinations and quarantines to control the spread of the epidemic.
It is noteworthy that China revealed 3 new deaths from the Corona virus in just two days, and on Sunday it announced the first death from the virus in the country in about 6 months.
This death is the first revealed by the National Health Committee since May 26, which raises the total number of deaths from corona in China since the start of the pandemic at the end of 2019 to 5,229 after announcing two deaths yesterday.
China is the home of the spread of the Corona virus around the world, and over the course of about two years, it recorded more than 1.27 million cases of the virus.
