BEIJING (AP) — China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic a year and a half ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.

Now, the country is on high alert as an outbreak of cases connected to the international airport in the eastern city of Nanjing touched at least 17 provinces. China reported 71 new cases of COVID-19 from local transmission Wednesday, more than half of them in coastal Jiangsu province, of which Nanjing is the capital.

In Wuhan, the central city where the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in late 2019, mass testing has shown some of its newly reported cases have a high degree of similarity to cases discovered in Jiangsu province. Those cases have been identified as being caused by the highly transmissible delta variant that first was identified in India.

In addition to the 71 cases of local transmission, 25 travelers from overseas have COVID-19 and have entered quarantine, making the total for Wednesday 96 new cases. The National Health Commission also said 15 people tested positive for the virus but have no symptoms.

    • duderium [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Thanks Jerry. By the way, I'm glad to see that you've seen the light and stopped hanging out with the IDF and fucking underage girls.

      I honestly don't have a lot of optimism, but what do I know? I live in the rural USA, so it's almost nothing but libs and chuds here. The nearest leftwing org I know of is the DSA, and that's three hours from where I live. Starting orgs here is also pretty hopeless—I know because I've tried.

      Anything can happen. Delta or lambda or whatever could precipitate another major uprising, but without a vanguard party it's hard to see any uprising going anywhere, and the security state works extremely hard to destroy vanguard parties long before they actually become a threat. But again, what do I know?