In Pics: China fights ‘stealth omicron’ in largest COVID scare in 2 years

Chinese authorities have reported 1,337 cases where COVID has been locally transmitted across numerous mainland cities, Monday, as the nation battles ‘stealth omicron’, facing the biggest outbreak of the coronavirus in two years.
The far northeastern Jilin province reported 895 cases, claiming the vast majority, while Shenzhen reported 75 new cases. Residents started the first of three rounds of mass testing and authorities on Sunday locked down the city of 17.5 million people.
China, which has stuck to a strict zero-COVID policy since the outbreak in Wuhan is for now keeping to the strategy of stopping transmission. However, the B.A.2 lineage of the omicron variant is behind causing the surge of cases.