Residents line up outside a nucleic acid testing site of a hospital, following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Shanghai, China March 11, 2022. China Daily via REUTERS
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BEIJING, March 13 (Reuters) – Mainland China reported a two-year high 1,807 new local symptomatic COVID-19 cases on Sunday, more than triple the caseload of the previous day, as surging infections in a northeastern province squeeze health resources.
The number of domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms reported for Saturday spiked from 476 the previous day, data from the National Health Commission showed on Sunday. The daily count included 114 people initially classified as asymptomatic who later developed symptoms.
China’s case count is far lower than those of many other countries, but the growing number could complicate…
