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The Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region has also since October 8 been faced with an outbreak of the epidemic. Its capital, Hohhot is battling the country’s first outbreak of new omicron subvariant, BF.7, which is thought to be more transmissible and better able to evade the immune system than other strains. Local health authorities said that almost all of the nearly 700 local cases found by October 6 in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region came from Hohhot. The regional capital has reported more than 1,800 local infections since detecting a Covid case Sept. 28 that was later confirmed to be the BF.7 subvariant.