Prognosis
Virus Flares in Wuhan Again as Delta Skirts China’s Defenses
- Original Covid epicenter had been virus-free since last May
- Mass testing to quarantines being tested by contagious delta
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China is confronting its broadest Covid-19 outbreak since coronavirus first emerged there in late 2019, with the delta variant spreading to places that had been virus-free for months, including the original epicenter of Wuhan.
Delta has broken through the country’s virus defenses, which are some of the strictest in the world, and reached nearly half of China’s 32 provinces in just two weeks. While the overall number of infections -- more than 300 so far -- is still lower than Covid resurgences elsewhere, the wide spread indicates that the variant is moving quickly.