COVID-19: Chinese city of Wuhan affected by Delta variant

Hundreds of thousands of residents were confined on Monday in China in the midst of an epidemic rebound, which has seen the Delta strain spread to the four corners of the country and reach the city of Wuhan, the first affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.

China has virtually eradicated the disease on its soil since the spring of 2020 and life has largely returned to normal, despite the persistence of a few sporadic and hitherto very localized outbreaks of contamination.

This increase in contamination is admittedly still very limited compared to the figures recorded in other countries.

But this focus is in terms of geographic extent the most important in recent months in China: more than a dozen provinces are now affected as well as Beijing, the capital, which on Sunday called on its inhabitants not to leave the city except compelling reason.

At the beginning of July, around fifty Chinese passengers repatriated from Afghanistan had thus tested positive on their arrival in Wuhan.

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Despite the vaccination, hundreds of thousands of residents were confined in China on Monday, mainly in Nanjing and a district in northern Beijing.