China finds new Covid-19 subtype as daily cases exceed 13,000


China is among the last remaining places following a zero-Covid approach to the pandemic. - Reuters

BEIJING, April 3 (Bloomberg, AFP): China on Sunday (April 3) reported 13,146 Covid-19 cases, the highest since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread to more than a dozen provinces.

"There were 1,455 patients with symptoms... 11,691 asymptomatic cases... and no new deaths reported," the National Health Commission said in a statement.

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