Beijing reports 12 new covid infections

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Multiple unrelated outbreaks are ongoing in Beijing, health officials said today after announcing 7 new symptomatic cases and 5 asymptomatic cases.

“There
are clusters from two different sources. The first one was infected by
international mail. There are five local cases of Omicron and they are
all in Haidian district,” Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said.

“Another
cluster was infected by the cold chain, and they are Delta cases. There
are 13 symptomatic cases and five asymptomatic cases. They are found in
Chaoyang, Fengtai, and Fangshan districts,” she said, describing the
situation as “complicated and severe”.

Experts question the mail theory and that suggests there’s an unknown chain of infection and doubt infections from frozen food as well. We’re now 14 days away from the opening ceremonies.

Today, IMF leader Georgieva was asked if it was time for China to move away from covid-zero policies and she hinted that it was.