A Chinese official said, on Sunday, that the city of Shanghai had detected a new type of the mutated Omicron strain of the Corona virus in a case infected with “Covid-19”. July, and linked to the case coming from abroad.
Shanghai in eastern China has lifted closing restrictions that have lasted nearly two months since the beginning of June, but it continues to impose strict restrictions, closing buildings and complexes as soon as a possible outbreak appears.
“Recently, our city continues to record more locally transmitted positive cases of COVID-19, and the risk of the epidemic spreading in the community is still very high,” Zhao of the Shanghai Health Commission warned.
He said residents in several major areas of Shanghai will undergo two rounds of COVID-19 tests, from July 12 to 14, in an effort to control a possible new outbreak of the disease.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China, the mutant (Omicron PA.5), which causes a new wave of “Covid-19” infections abroad, was first detected in China on May 13 in a 37-year-old male patient. He arrived in Shanghai from Uganda.
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