SHANGHAI: The city of Shanghai has discovered a COVID-19 case concerning a new subvariant Omicron BA. 5. 2 . 1, an official told a briefing upon Sunday (Jul 10), signalling the problems China faces to maintain with new mutations as it pursues its “zero-COVID” policy.
The case, found in the financial area of Pudong on Jul 8, had been linked with a case through overseas, said Zhao Dandan, vice-director from the city’s health commission payment.
Shanghai, in eastern China, surfaced from a lockdown long lasting around two months at the start of June, but it has continued to impose tough limitations, locking down structures and compounds the moment new potential transmitting chains emerge.
“Our city has recently continued to statement more locally carried positive cases (of COVID-19) and the risk of the epidemic growing through society remains very high, ” Zhao of the Shanghai wellness commission warned.
He said residents in several major Shanghai in china districts would go through 2 rounds of COVID-19 tests , from Jul 12 in order to 14, in a bet to bring potential new outbreaks under control.