China virus cases surging with 'stealth omicron'

China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.
A fast-spreading variant known as “stealth omicron” is testing China’s zero-tolerance strategy. The National Health Commission said 3,507 new cases had been identified in the latest 24-hour period, up from 1,337 a day earlier.No new deaths have been reported in the multiple outbreaks across China.
Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous city that tracks its outbreak separately from the mainland, reported 26,908 new cases on Monday alone.Nearly three-quarters of China's new infections are in Jilin, a province in the northeast that reported 2,601 cases.Smaller outbreaks have hit more than a dozen provinces and major cities including Beijing and Shanghai.