 "China Health Workers, Covid-19 pandemic, Coronavirus")
More provinces in China are fighting Covid-19 than at any time since the deadly pathogen first emerged in Wuhan in 2019.
The highly-infectious delta variant is hurtling across the country despite the increasingly aggressive measures that local officials have enacted in a bid to thwart it.
More than 600 local infections have been found in 19 of 31 provinces in the latest outbreak in the world’s second-largest economy.
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China reported 93 new local cases on Wednesday, and 11 asymptomatic infections. Three more provinces detected cases:
