China’s Covid-19 Cases Hit Highest Daily Total Since 2020 Wuhan Outbreak

China logged its highest daily total of locally transmitted Covid-19 infections in more than two years, with the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus posing a fresh test to China’s ability to quickly smother outbreaks. China’s National Health Commission said Monday that it had detected 526 domestic infection cases, 214 of which were symptomatic, on the prior day, marking the single highest daily tally by either measure since the initial pandemic outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in early 2020. Most of those who tested positive on Sunday were in the eastern port cities of Qingdao and Shanghai, with others detected in the southern province of Guangdong and the northeastern province of Jilin.