Chinese city of Qingdao reports Omicron outbreak among students

Published March 7, 2022

The Chinese port city of Qingdao has reported 88 new coronavirus cases for March 5, all of them of the Omicron variant, fuelling China's highest number of daily locally transmitted cases so far this year, reports Reuters.

The Qingdao outbreak was mainly among middle school students in Laixi county, the Qingdao Municipal Health Commission said.

In this file photo, vedical workers inoculate students with the vaccine against the coronavirus at a university in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. — Reuters/File

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