Prognosis
China Contains Delta Outbreak Ahead of Holiday, Avoiding Travel Curbs
- Millions of Chinese to travel internally for Golden Week break
- Flareups in Fujian province and city of Harbin under control
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China has contained its latest Covid-19 outbreak just in time for a week-long holiday starting Friday, avoiding the need for travel curbs during a crucial period of consumer spending and domestic tourism.
A cluster caused by the highly infectious delta variant in the southeastern province of Fujian is fizzling out, with no cases reported on Thursday, the first time since infections were found at a local school on Sept. 10. A separate flareup in the northeastern city of Harbin also appears to have stabilized. Infections have fallen to single digits from about a dozen a day, and are mainly among the close contacts of people who are already in quarantine.