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China Enters The Next Phase of Its COVID-19 Outbreak: Suppression

Researchers are looking at how China emerges from one of the largest lockdowns in human history — and whether the dropoff in new cases continues.
Source: Stephanie Adeline

There are now so few coronavirus cases in China that some days authorities don't see any local transmission. China has gone from reporting thousands of cases a day in February to one or two a day now. Over the last week, officials with China's National Health Commission reported just 5 new domestic cases. The total of new cases was higher but almost all of them were imported cases in travelers who'd recently returned from abroad.

China has driven coronavirus transmission down to nearly zero (although there's some question among international academics about China's case reporting and whether some cases are being overlooked, it's generally

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