Rome, 6 August 2021 – i infections in China. 124 new Covid cases have been registered in the last 24 hours throughout the country, but more than enough for the Chinese authorities to return to apply strict restrictions: movements between provinces are not recommended and are subject to tests millions of people to stem the spread of outbreaks caused by Delta variant. Or in Beijing the exhibitions have been closed and they have been all major events canceled scheduled for August, including international events such as the Beijing International Film Festival 2021 and the World 5G Convention.
Contagions in the provinces
The 124 new infections on Thursday in China, of which 80 from internal transmission to the country and 44 imported from abroad, are the new maximum number registered in one day in 2021. According to the updates of the national health commission, the Jiangsu the most affected province is confirmed with 61 cases transmitted locally. The other cases of domestic transmission were identified in the province of Hunan (9), of Hubei (6) and Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hainan and Yunnan (1 infection each). Of the 44 imported infections, 13 are related to Guangdong, 10 at Yunnan, 8 ciscuno to Shanghai and Shandong, two in both Sichuan and Shaanxi, and one in Tianjin. There are also three suspected imported cases registered in Shanghai. Overall, the infections verified in China have reached 93,498, while the deaths have always stood at 4,636.
The situation in Beijing
As for the close on Beijing, there are no indications for now on the postponement of the China International Fair for Trade in Services 2021, which will be held from 2 to 7 September. Faced with new outbreaks in other provinces, the capital has strengthened its own prevention measures: People arriving in Beijing from high-risk areas for the virus should undergo the centralized quarantine 14 days and seven days of health monitoring. Those from medium-risk areas should undergo 14 days of home medical observation and seven days of health monitoring. The municipal government has urged relevant departments to carry out timely epidemiological investigations on specific highly mobile groups, including taxi and trip-sharing drivers and bellhops. Beijing plans to intensify screening of people entering the city from areas with reported cases of Covid-19. Beijing reported zero infections on Thursday after 3 on Wednesday.
The Cia investigates its Wuhan
Meanwhile, on the still open question with respect toorigin of the coronavirus, the American broadcaster Cnn reveals – citing “various informed sources” – that the US intelligence agencies have come into possession of numerous data on laboratory in Wuhan, suspected of being where the pandemic began. The CIA and other US institutions “are rummaging through a ‘treasure’ of genetic data – says CNN – which, once deciphered, could reveal the origins of the coronavirus. “The sources cited by American TV told of a giant catalog of information, containing genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied in the Wuhan laboratory.
It is unclear how or when US intelligence agencies got it access to information, But the machines involved in creating and processing this type of genetic data from viruses are typically connected to external cloud-based servers, and therefore potentially hackable, the sources said. American investigators have long sought genetic data from 22,000 virus samples which were being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Such data was removed from the internet by Chinese officials in September 2019, and China has since refused to hand over this and other raw data on early coronavirus cases to WHO and the United States. And the cited sources of CNN have neither confirmed nor denied that intelligence is analyzing the data relating to those 22 thousand samples.
Also, it adds up, the great work in progress it wouldn’t be enough to prove conclusively whether the virus originated in the Wuhan laboratory or emerged naturally for the first time. But at the same time, it is a piece of investigation deemed very relevant to making progress and on which the White House is betting a lot. If you consider that Joe Biden last May gave intelligence 90 days to elaborate a report on the origins of Covid to react to speculations about the origin of the coronavirus and, in particular, to clarify the theory of origin in the Wuhan laboratory. Furthermore, the US president’s announcement came after a US intelligence report indicated that several researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier. of this week. There is expectation on the results of this work from which it is hoped that more information can be obtained that will help answer the question about how the virus passed from animals to humans. Unraveling this mystery is essential in order to determine whether the virus spread from a laboratory or was transmitted to humans naturally by animals.
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