 "A health worker takes a swab sample at a pop-up Covid-19 testing station in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, China, on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. China imposed new travel and movement restrictions amid a delta-driven outbreak that's grown to over 500 sympt")
China added more than 13,000 new Covid-19 infections with state media reporting a case infected with a new subtype of the omicron variant.
The new iteration of the virus, isolated from a mild Covid-19 patient in a city less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Shanghai, evolves from the BA.1.1 branch of the omicron variant, Global Times reported, citing sequencing data from local health authorities.
The report said the subtype doesn’t match other coronavirus that’s causing Covid in China nor those submitted to GISAID, where scientists around the world share the coronavirus they sequenced as a way to monitor
The report said the subtype doesn’t match other coronavirus that’s causing Covid in China nor those submitted to GISAID, where scientists around the world share the coronavirus they sequenced as a way to monitor
