Covid-19 situation on March 23, 2022: China blocks more cities

According to Channel News Asia, the blockade order in Shenyang city, where many factories are located, including the BMW factory, was issued on the night of March 21. The city currently records up to 47 cases of Covid-19 on March 22.

Under the blockade order, all residential areas in Shenyang were placed under “closed management”, people were not allowed to go out without a negative test result within 48 hours.

Also on March 22, the financial center of Shanghai recorded the number of asymptomatic Covid-19 cases outside the community at a record high for the fifth day in a row.

Shanghai is working to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak. Photo: Reuters

Official data shows that Shanghai recorded 865 asymptomatic Covid-19 infections in the community on March 21, up from 734 cases a day earlier. The city also found 31 new asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 in the community, according to data from China’s National Health Commission (NHC).

Mainland China on March 22 recorded a total of 4,770 new Covid-19 infections across the country, most of which were concentrated in Jilin province. The country has remained faithful to its “flexible no-Covid” strategy, with local lockdown measures, widespread testing and city-scale closures.

However, the contagious variant Omicron is causing China’s “no Covid” strategy to face the biggest challenge since the initial outbreak in Wuhan. Authorities in this country have had to relax a few regulations such as allowing people to self-test at home and not forcing people infected with Covid-19 with mild symptoms to be hospitalized.

Laos has the highest number of new infections ever

The Lao Ministry of Health on March 22 said that in the past 24 hours, the country recorded 2,328 new Covid-19 infections, the highest level ever, of which the capital Vientiane alone had a total of 1,331 cases.

Facing the above situation, the Lao Ministry of Health has called for people to do a quick self-test at home to register on the consultation channel of the Medical Information Center to receive support on appropriate health monitoring methods. This registration is expected to help authorities collect more accurate data on the number of cases who are taking care of themselves at home instead of going to hospital for treatment.

In addition, the Lao Center for Disease Control also recommends that people who self-test for Covid-19 contact the authorities via hotline 164 to get a patient code, and promptly coordinate with doctors in case of symptoms. severe transfer.

The Lao Ministry of Health recommends that people who test positive for Covid-19 but do not show symptoms should self-isolate for at least 10 days, and those with symptoms should be monitored for an additional 3 to 13 days before returning. back to normal life.

WHO explains the cause of the sharp increase in the Covid-19 epidemic in Europe

Speaking at a press conference on March 22, World Health Organization (WHO) Europe Director Hans Kluge expressed optimism, but remained wary about the progress of the Covid-19 epidemic in Europe. Europe. According to him, the number of Covid-19 cases is on the rise in 18 of the 53 countries and territories in the European region according to WHO’s division, especially in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece and the island. Cyprus, France, Italy and Germany.

The reason for the increased number of Covid-19 infections in these countries may be because the stealthy Omicron variant is more contagious, but not as dangerous as other variants. In addition, the fact that some European countries are somewhat hasty in lifting epidemic prevention restrictions is also the cause of this situation.

According to the WHO database, the number of new Covid-19 infections in Europe has fallen sharply from the peak recorded at the end of January, but is on the rise again since the beginning of March. In 7 days Over the past time, more than 5.1 million new infections and 12,496 new deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in the European region according to the WHO division, bringing the total number of infections and deaths in this continent from the beginning. The epidemic season so far has reached nearly 194.4 million and more than 1.92 million cases, respectively.

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