Over the past few days, tens of millions of residents of the world’s most populous country have been quarantined at home, particularly in the tech metropolis of Shenzhen.
China reported 5,280 cases of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours on Tuesday, March 15, the highest since the very first wave of the epidemic in early 2020. to largely stop the epidemic by resorting to strict containment measures, but the Omicron strain has caused numerous outbreaks across the country in recent months.
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Over the past few days, tens of millions of residents of the world’s most populous country have been quarantined at home, specifically in the tech metropolis of Shenzhen (south), at the gates of Hong Kong. The measures have led to the closure of many factories, including Taiwanese giant Foxconn, Apple’s main supplier, in the metropolitan area of 17 million people.
Tuesday’s figures were heavily affected by losses in Jilin Province (northeast), which borders North Korea. More than 3,000 infections have been recorded in this province alone. If these numbers remain modest compared to balance sheets recorded elsewhere in the world, they are high for China, where there have been only about 120,000 Covid cases since the start of the epidemic, including 4,636 deaths.
The latest death from Covid-19 is officially dated to early 2021.
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