The State regulator is ensuring sufficient medical and living supplies are delivered now and during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, to prepare for the rising demand for medicine during the latest outbreak of COVID-19 and to deal with difficulties such as courier shortages.
Omicron could have entered the Chinese capital Beijing via contaminated mail from Canada, the city’s Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on Monday. Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing CDC, said the city’s first Covid-19 patient to be diagnosed with the Omicron variant had received a letter mailed from Canada on Jan 7. “We do not rule out.