While China has reported a low number of regionally spread cases, Sydney, in Australia, is experiencing a rise in corona infections and deaths. Meanwhile, French citizens are protesting against the govt for making the health pass necessary to support vaccination. China’s local transmission crisis eases. For four straight days, China has seen fewer daily local infections as compared to imported cases, South China Morning Post reported.
The National Health Commission in China Monday reported 51 new cases of Covid, including 13 locally transmitted cases and 38 imported ones. The country is following a strict restraining and mass testing strategy to contain the explosion of the highly infectious delta variant and is applying a zero-tolerance approach. Five officials from the Yucheng county of Shangqiu city in Henan were removed from office for not implementing containment measures strictly.
On the other hand, China has reported 94,430 Covid cases and 4,636 deaths so far. Australia’s New South Wales in ‘worst ever situation’ The state premier of New South Wales, Australia, Gladys Berejiklian has said the current coronavirus situation in New South Wales is ‘the worst since the beginning of the pandemic, BBC reported. Locally transmitted Covid infections hit 466 Saturday, increasing from the previous daily rise of 390 just a day earlier.
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