Beijing: Beijing reported more cases of COVID-19 and deaths due to infection in the last 24 hours. Following this, the local authorities in the southern city of Guangzhou locked down its largest district on Monday.
China logged 27,095 cases nationwide, the daily highest number of infections reported during the Shanghai outbreak earlier this year, with Guangzhou, capital of the economic powerhouse, Guangdong, reporting the largest number of new cases on Monday at 9,085.
Meanwhile, the caseload in Beijing rose sharply to 962, its highest since the beginning of the pandemic, with two more deaths reported for Sunday.
Of the 962 new cases in Beijing on Sunday, 266 cases were identified outside quarantine zones during community tests, indicating that the virus – primarily, the Omicron BF.7 variant – is circulating within the community.
