Over 40 percent of confirmed cases in the latest COVID-19 resurgence in Putian, East China's Fujian Province, are minors under 12 years old, said a local health official at a press conference on Thursday.
Over half of the locally confirmed cases in this round of the epidemic in East China's Fujian were teachers and students in kindergartens, elementary and middle schools, and factory employees. Cluster infections are obvious in the latest outbreak, said national health official Mi Feng on Thursday.
Experts in China believe that the vaccination of children should be included on the agenda as soon as possible.
The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 62 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, with 61 in Fujian and one in Yunnan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.
Also reported were 22 new imported cases, including 16 in Yunnan, two each in Henan and Guangdong, and one each in Shanghai and Zhejiang.
Two new suspected cases were reported in Shanghai, all arriving from outside the mainland, while no deaths related to COVID-19 were reported on Thursday across the mainland, the commission said.