The number of coronavirus cases in China has risen to more than 10,000 per day, setting a record for COVID-19 infections.
Today, Wednesday, it was announced in Beijing that a record level of infections with the Corona virus, which causes the Covid-19 epidemic, had been recorded during the last twenty-four hours.
The number of injuries exceeded the barrier of twenty thousand, most of them in Shanghai, where preparations are being made to open a huge field hospital with a capacity of about 40,000 beds, according to AFP.
And China, where the Corona virus was detected for the first time in the world in the city of Wuhan in December of the year 2019, was able until March 2021 to contain the epidemic to a large extent by using very strict measures adopted in the context of what is known as the “zero Covid strategy”.
However, the mutant "Omicron" undermined this strategy, with the total daily infections exceeding the official results recorded during the first epidemic wave in Wuhan, central China.
On Wednesday, Beijing announced that 20,472 injuries had been recorded during the last twenty-four hours, which is a low total relative to what is recorded by many other countries, but it is high for China, where infection levels were barely more than 100 in February.
But despite the high number of infections in China, no deaths were recorded, according to the Chinese Ministry of Health.
According to the ministry, the last two deaths officially announced in the country date back to mid-March.
More than 80% of the new infections were recorded in Shanghai, which is the largest city in the country that has been subject to almost complete closure measures since last week.
The city authorities, with a population of about 25 million, are expected to turn a large convention and exhibition center into a huge temporary hospital with a capacity of 40,000 beds, according to the Chinese news agency, "Xinhua".
Although the majority of cases recorded in Shanghai did not show symptoms, everyone who tested positive, including children, is quarantined in centers designated for this purpose.
This strategy has been the subject of criticism on social media, as infants are separated from their parents if they are found to be infected with Covid-19 and their parents do not have the disease.
At the end of the week, the authorities of Suzhou, 70 kilometers from Shanghai, announced the discovery of a mutated version of omicron that is not yet known nationally or internationally.
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