CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA: INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGION FACES FRESH OUTBREAK OF OMICRON VARIANT BF.7
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.
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