COVID-19 is not going away! Wuhan redux- vaccinate-vaccinate-vaccinate
So, Senator Lindsey Graham is more proof about the infectious virulence of the dangerous COVID-19 virus. Meanwhile, another outbreak is reported in Wuhan, China, where the source of the virus was first reported, in 2019.
Graham is the first vaccinated senator to test positive for COVID-19
Associated Press report by Meg Kinnard
China orders mass testing in Wuhan as COVID outbreak spreads- reported in the Associated Press.
Three cases were confirmed there on Monday, its first non-imported cases in more than a year.
They were among 90 new (Maine Writer- reported !) cases confirmed nationwide the previous day, the National Health Commission said Tuesday. Of those, 61 cases were locally spread ones and 29 among people who had recently arrived from abroad.
Most of the local cases are still in Jiangsu province, where an outbreak started at the airport in Nanjing, the provincial capital, and has spread to other parts of he province and beyond. Authorities reported 45 new cases, five in Nanjing and 40 in the city of Yangzhou, 105 kilometers (65 miles) away, where a second round of mass testing was underway.
Five other provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai reported new local cases in the single digits. In Shanghai, the nation’s largest city, a driver working at one of its two main airports tested positive. Beijing has reported a total of five cases in recent days.
The Nanjing outbreak, which has been traced to the delta variant, is the source of the cases in most other places. Separately, delta variant outbreaks in two other places have been linked to neighboring Myanmar, which has seen a sharp rise in infections.
They were among 90 new (Maine Writer- reported !) cases confirmed nationwide the previous day, the National Health Commission said Tuesday. Of those, 61 cases were locally spread ones and 29 among people who had recently arrived from abroad.
Most of the local cases are still in Jiangsu province, where an outbreak started at the airport in Nanjing, the provincial capital, and has spread to other parts of he province and beyond. Authorities reported 45 new cases, five in Nanjing and 40 in the city of Yangzhou, 105 kilometers (65 miles) away, where a second round of mass testing was underway.
Five other provinces and the cities of Beijing and Shanghai reported new local cases in the single digits. In Shanghai, the nation’s largest city, a driver working at one of its two main airports tested positive. Beijing has reported a total of five cases in recent days.
The Nanjing outbreak, which has been traced to the delta variant, is the source of the cases in most other places. Separately, delta variant outbreaks in two other places have been linked to neighboring Myanmar, which has seen a sharp rise in infections.
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| A nurse takes throat swab samples in new round of COVID-19 testing in Nanjing city, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. The current coronavirus outbreaks in China, while still in the hundreds (Maine Writer- "reported") - of cases in total, have spread much more widely than previous ones, reaching multiple provinces and cities including the capital, Beijing. Many of the cases have been identified as the highly contagious delta variant that is driving a resurgence in many countries. (Chinatopix via AP) |
An outbreak in Zhengzhou, a city hit by flooding that killed about 300 people last month, started with people who arrived from Myanmar by air. A third outbreak, the one that started the earliest, spilled into Yunnan province from its border with Myanmar.
Government-affiliated scientists have said that Chinese vaccines are less effective against the new strains of the coronavirus but still offer some protection. Only Chinese vaccines are currently being given in China, where authorities say more than 1.6 billion doses have been administered.
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