New Omicron subvariant BA.5.2.1 found in Shanghai

New Omicron subvariant BA.5.2.1 found in Shanghai

SHANGHAI: The city of Shanghai has discovered a COVID-19 case involving a new Omicron subvariant HANDBAG. 5. 2 . one, an official told a briefing on Sunday (Jul 10), whistling the complications The far east faces to keep up along with new mutations because it pursues its “zero-COVID” policy.

The case, found in the financial district associated with Pudong on Jul 8, was related to a case from abroad, said Zhao Dandan, vice-director of the city’s health commission.

Shanghai, in eastern China, emerged from the lockdown lasting around two months at the start of June, but it offers continued to impose tough restrictions, locking down buildings and compounds as soon as brand new potential transmission stores emerge.

“Our city has recently carried on to report a lot more locally transmitted good cases (of COVID-19) and the risk from the epidemic spreading by means of society remains high, ” Zhao from the Shanghai health percentage warned.

He said residents in a number of major Shanghai zones would undergo two rounds of COVID-19 assessments , from Jul 12 to 14, in a bid to create potential new breakouts under control.