Bad records continue to pile up in China.

The country on Tuesday reported 5,280 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest tally since the very first epidemic wave in early 2020.

China, where the coronavirus was first detected at the end of 2019, had managed to largely stem the epidemic by resorting to strict containment measures, but the Omicron strain has given rise in recent months to numerous outbreaks in the country. whole country.

Foxconn closes its factory

For the past few days, tens of millions of inhabitants of the most populous country in the world have been placed in quarantine at home, in particular in the technological metropolis of Shenzhen, in the South, at the gates of Hong Kong.

These measures have led to the closure of many factories, including those of the Taiwanese giant Foxconn, Apple's main supplier, in the megalopolis of 17 million inhabitants.

Tuesday's figures were also greatly weighed down by the results of the province of Jilin, bordering North Korea.

More than 3,000 contaminations have been recorded in this province alone.

While these figures remain modest compared to the balance sheets recorded elsewhere in the world, they are high for China, which has only recorded around 120,000 cases of Covid-19 in all and for all since the start of the epidemic, including 4,636. mortals.

The last death officially dates back to the beginning of 2021.

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