Asymptomatic case found during nucleic test in city
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SHANGHAI reported one COVID-19 asymptomatic case and 14 imported infections on Saturday, the Shanghai Health Commission said early yesterday.
The asymptomatic patient is a 61-year-old male, who was previously treated for coronavirus in a German hospital in May.
He arrived in Shanghai on November 3 and tested positive on December 17 at a local hospital where he had gone for nucleic acid testing.
Forty-two of his close contacts in Shanghai are now under medical observation, and the places he visited have been disinfected.
There were no other local cases, the commission said, adding that a total of three asymptomatic infections were currently under observation.
Elsewhere, in Beijing, an art student tested positive for COVID-19.
Tongzhou District authorities said students in the painting class and their close contacts were tracked down and put under quarantine.
Central China’s Hunan Province detected the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in two people who had arrived from overseas in the provincial capital of Changsha.
The genome sequencing and analysis by the Hunan provincial center for disease control and prevention found the Omicron variant in the respiratory tract samples taken from two imported COVID-19 cases registered in Changsha on Thursday.
An ensuing check by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the finding, the Changsha municipal COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control headquarters said on Saturday.
The infected persons have been placed under quarantine and are undergoing treatment in a designated hospital.
The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 44 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said yesterday.
Of the new local cases, 31 were reported in Zhejiang, 10 in Shaanxi, and three in Guangdong provinces.
Meanwhile, countries worldwide have begun advising against foreign travel while ramping up domestic restrictions to battle Omicron, even though scientists remain uncertain how dangerous it is.
Britain has seen case levels explode in recent weeks to record levels amid fears the variant could overwhelm hospitals during the dinners and parties for the year-end holidays.
Starting at midnight on Saturday, the French government said, travelers will need “an essential reason to travel to, or come from, the UK, both for the unvaccinated and vaccinated... People cannot travel for touristic or professional reasons.”
It added that French citizens and EU nationals could still return to France from the UK, but they will now need a negative Covid-19 test less than 24 hours old, and a blanket quarantine will be enforced upon their return.
The Spanish government said that boosters would soon be available for everyone aged 40 and older, down from 65 and older currently.
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