China reported more local symptomatic cases of COVID-19 so far year which he recorded in all of 2021, as the highly transmissible omicron variant sparks outbreaks from Shanghai to Shenzhen.
Mainland China reported 1,337 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases with confirmed symptoms on On March 13, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Monday. This brought the total this year for more more than 9,000, against with 8,378 in 2021, according to Reuters calculations.
Officials in Shenzhen, China’s Silicon Valley, has temporarily suspended public transportation and urged people for work at home as they wear out city-large-scale testing this week following a surge in new case.
Apple suppliers Foxconn and Unmicron Technology Corp. both have suspended operations in South city on Monday. Foxconn, officially known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., said operations would be suspended until further notice, adding that it would deploy backup factories to reduce production disruption.
To North-east city of Changchun, which is currently under lockdown, Toyota suspended production of son seal venture with The Chinese group FAW.
Including cases from outside the mainland, China reported 1,437 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on On March 13, the NHC said, compared with 1938 a day earlier.
There were 906 new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, compared with 1,455 a day earlier.
There was none new dead, leaving the death toll unchanged at 4,636.
As of By March 13, mainland China had reported 116,902 cases with confirmed symptoms, including local and imported.
