Covid-19 daily numbers in China are at levels not seen since early 2020, as Omicron tests the country’s zero-tolerance approach
What is an endemic and how will we know when Covid-19 becomes one? WSJ’s Daniela Hernandez breaks down how public-health experts assess when a virus like Covid-19 enters an endemic stage. Photo: Michael Nagle/Zuma Presscontinued to hit levels
not seen since early 2020, as health authorities rushed to stay ahead of a fast-moving virus spreading quickly through asymptomatic carriers. On Friday, China’s National Health Commission reported more than 1,000 locally transmitted Covid-19 infections, the first time daily case counts had topped that milestone in roughly two years. Most of the new cases, 397 of which were asymptomatic, were clustered in the eastern province of Shandong and the northeastern province of Jilin.