Xi’an is fighting China’s severest COVID-19 outbreak since Wuhan’s in early 2020 with more than 1,500 people infected, but experts said that the inflection point is still yet to occur.
On Sunday, Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi Province, announced that two senior Party officials from the city’s Yanta district had been removed from their posts, and a deputy mayor concurrently serving as district Party chief to strengthen local anti-virus work, local media reported.
Xi’an is fighting a severe COVID-19 outbreak. As of Saturday, Since Dec 9, Xi'an has reported a total of 1,573 local confirmed COVID-19 cases, local authorities announced on Sunday.
To date, eight people have been cured, while there are three critical cases and 10 severe cases. Yanta was the site of 61 out of Xi’an’s 122 newly confirmed cases on Saturday.
However, the origin of the outbreak in Xi’an, and when the virus began to spread and how it has been circulating around the city still remain unknown.
The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 101 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.
Of the new local cases, 92 were reported in Shaanxi, and nine were reported in Zhejiang, the commission said.
Also reported were 60 new imported cases in 13 provincial-level regions, according to the commission.
No new suspected cases or new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Sunday, it added.