China reports no new local COVID-19 cases for first time since July
The Peninsula
BEIJING: China's health authority reported on Monday that there were no new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 for the first time since July, offering more signs that the current outbreak which began late last month may be tapering off soon.
The latest outbreak was driven mainly by infections first detected on July 20 among a few airport workers in the eastern city of Nanjing who had been contracted to the highly transmissible Delta variant, first identified in India. Since then, more than 1,200 people in China have been confirmed to be infected, though not all of them were cases of the Delta variant.More Related News