From Bloomberg via Singapore's The Straits Times, November 9:
BEIJING - New Covid-19 cases in Beijing jumped to the highest level in more than five months, with officials alarmed by infections being found outside of quarantine that show the virus is still spreading in the community.
The capital reported 78 new infections on Wednesday, the most since May 22. The city has reported double-digit daily cases for most of the past month, though numbers started to spike in recent days, doubling from 39 on Nov 4.
Six cases were found outside of isolation facilities, up from one infection the day before.
China, which automatically quarantines confirmed cases and their close contacts, monitors community transmission as a key indicator of whether an outbreak is under control. While the numbers are small by global standards, with much of the world now living with Covid-19, they’re high for a country that is continuing to try and eliminate the virus.
“Currently Beijing continues to find cases through community testing, which shows that risks of hidden transmissions in the community persist,” Dr Liu Xiaofeng from the Beijing Centre for Disease Control told reporters at a briefing on Tuesday.
That was a change from a day before when another CDC official said that the capital has effectively controlled most of the transmission chains through fast and scientific virus controls and the cooperation of the public....
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