China on 'high alert' as delta variant of Covid-19 spreads to 5 provinces.
But the 184 infections detected in the city of Nanjing in the past 10 days will test whether the country's zero-tolerance approach, which has swiftly dealt with previous outbreaks, can containThe outbreak is believed to have started in Nanjing, a city of more than 9 million people, around 150 miles west of Shanghai.
China has crushed previous spikes with strictly enforced lockdowns, quarantines and controls on international travel., China's flare-ups have been relatively minor by international standards and in the context of China's 1.4 billion population.The United States had 202.4 infections for every million people Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The same figure for China was 0.04.
Some experts say other factors may have been at play, including people mixing too quickly following their first dose in Chile. Others believe the Chinese vaccines have shown good protection against severe disease. China has not released results of clinical trials or real-world data that would be needed to assess the vaccines' effectiveness against different variants. This makes peer-reviewed analysis difficult.
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