A new wave of infections in China began on October 17.
93 new cases of COVID-19 infection within the country.
Interfax informs about it.
Of these, 35 cases were reported in Heihe City.
On Monday, 54 infected people were detected inside the country, on Sunday last week – 59, Saturday – 48.
A new wave of infections in China began on October 17, during this time in More than 500 infected have been identified in 17 provinces and districts.
The media call the trend alarming, as the geography of new cases of detection of diseases is expanding, despite the strict restrictive measures taken by the authorities.
A total of 109 new infections were recorded on Tuesday, 16 of them arrived in China from abroad.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 97,423 cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in mainland China, 4,636 people have died, 91,787 have recovered.
As a reminder, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), who arrived in China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus , said it was impossible to establish how SARS-CoV-2 got to the market in Wuhan. At the same time, they believe that it is unlikely that it spread from the Chinese laboratory.
In a study by scientists from the Universities of Cambridge, Hawaii and the Potsdam Institute for the Study of Climate Change , scientists recorded changes in the type of vegetation in the Chinese province which has created an environment for bats that carry SARS-CoV-2.
- House Foreign Affairs Committee Chief Republican Mc McCall released a report claiming evidence that the coronavirus emerged from the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
- The World Health Organization also investigated the causes of the pandemic and concluded in its report that the risk of an accident was ” extremely low. ” The report states that “there were no reports of respiratory illness compatible with COVID-19 in the weeks/months prior to December 2019, and there was no serological evidence of infection in workers as a result of serological screening for SARS-CoV-2.”/li>
- In turn, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted that it is “premature” to rule out the version of the COVID-19 leak from the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.