As China has faced impressive floods for several days, the country declared 76 new Covid patients on Monday, a record number since January, with most cases being recorded in a province bordering Shanghai, the most populous city in the country. .
A success obtained thanks in particular to massive screenings, strict confinements or the compulsory placement in quarantine of all people coming from abroad.
The first country to face the coronavirus at the end of 2019, the Asian giant has almost eradicated the disease on its soil since the spring of 2020 and life in China has since largely returned to normal.
The Chinese Communist Party welcomed last June its handling of the epidemic, while at the same time reports questioned the official figures of the pandemic in the country.
Sporadic outbreaks of contamination
39 of the 76 new patients announced by the Chinese Ministry of Health were identified in Jiangsu, a province located north of Shanghai, in eastern China.
Thousands of residents of Nanjing, the provincial capital, are currently in confinement after the recent discovery of an epidemic focus at its airport.
And since Sunday, the 9.2 million people living in this metropolis must undergo a second screening test to identify patients who may take longer than usual to show symptoms.
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China follows a zero tolerance policy towards the virus and is rushing to stem new outbreaks, at a time when the more contagious Delta variant is raging in neighboring India and Burma. A small Chinese town on the border of Burma is thus using facial recognition cameras to monitor the movements of its inhabitants and to eradicate a small focus of Covid-19.
