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Beijing , China: China Sunday reported 13,146 COVID-19 cases, the highest since the peak of the first wave more than two years ago, as the highly transmissible Omicron variant spread to more than a dozen provinces. "There were 1,455 patients with symptoms .... 11,691 asymptomatic cases... and no new deaths reported," the National Health Commission said in a statement. In China's financial hub Shanghai, the epicentre of the country's most severe COVID-19 outbreak, nearly all of its 25 million residents were under stay-at-home orders on 2 April, 2022, as officials rushed to curb the spread of the disease. On Sunday,...
