Hong Kong: Beijing has reported its first local Omicron infection, according to Media State, Sunday before the winter Olympic match will begin.
The infected person stayed and worked in Northwestern City district in Haidian and did not have a history of travel outside Beijing for the past two weeks.
Individuals experience symptoms on Thursday and tested on Friday for Covid-19, officials said at a press conference on Saturday where they confirmed infection.
Infection came less than three weeks before the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics in 4.
February, and about two weeks before the commencement of the Chinese New Year celebration in China.
So far, several cities in China have reported omicron infections, including Shanghai, West Kota Xi’an, cities in South Guangdong Province such as Zhuhai and Zhongshan, and Tianjin City, which is 30 minutes from Beijing at high speed.
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Officials throughout the country have urged residents to live in their city for the new year, instead of traveling back to their hometown.
China has adopted a strict policy of ‘zero-covid’ ‘, with the authorities locking housing compounds and even all cities such as Xi’an when local outbreaks have been found in an effort to stick to community transmission.
Housing compounds and workplaces Beijing patients have been sealed and the authorities are mass testing people connected with both locations for Coronavirus.
About 2,430 people have been tested on Saturday night, according to Global Times, a state-owned newspaper.
China reported 119 new Coronavirus infections on Saturday, where 65 was a domestic case.
The country reported 104,864 infections from the beginning of the pandemic.
Beijing reported the first local Omicron case in front of the Olympics
