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China ends 2021 with worst Covid week since taming original epidemic

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 1/3/2022 2:22:29 PM

Beijing, January 2 China ended its final week of 2021 with its biggest tally of local coronavirus cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country's first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite an arsenal of some of the world's toughest COVID- 19 measures. The National Health Commission reported on Saturday 175 new community infections with confirmed clinical symptoms for Dec. 31, bringing the total number of local symptomatic cases in mainland.