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Weeks ahead of the staging of the Olympic Winter Games, the Chinese capital, Beijing, has reported its first locally transmitted infection of the Omicron version, according to state media. Pang Jinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, said at a news briefing that lab testing found mutations specific to the Omicron variant. The authorities have sealed the residential premises and workplace of the infected persons and collected 2,430 samples for testing from people belonging to the two places. haddian The district officer said. The detection of the Omicron variant in Beijing comes as viral...
