China's new local Covid-19 cases hit six-week high (update)


People waiting in line to receive Covid-19 vaccination booster shots along a street in Beijing on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021. - AFP

SHANGHAI, Oct 30 (Reuters): Mainland China recorded its highest number of daily local new Covid-19 infections in more than six weeks on Friday, as the country battles an outbreak concentrated mainly in its northern provinces.

China reported 59 new locally transmitted infections for Oct. 29, the National Health Commission said on Saturday, up from 48 a day earlier. It was the highest number of new local infections since Sept. 16.

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