People fill forms before receiving a dose of a coronavirus disease vaccine at a vaccination site in Shanghai, China January 19, 2021. — Reuters pic
China reported more than 100 new Covid-19 cases for a seventh day today. It posted 118 new cases yesterday, up from 109 a day earlier, the national health authority said in a statement. Tens of millions of people have been in lockdown as some northern cities undergo mass testing amid worries that undetected infections could spread quickly during the Lunar New Year holiday, which is just weeks away.
The outbreak in Jilin was caused by an infected salesman travelling to and from the neighbouring province of Heilongjiang, the site of a previous cluster of infections. An independent panel of experts reviewing the pandemic, led by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, said on Monday that Chinese officials could have applied more forceful public health measures in January last year to curb the initial outbreak.
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