China’s daily coronavirus cases hit record high

Fatalities stand at 5,232

China on Wednesday reported the highest number of daily Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic nearly three years ago, official data showed. Excluding imported cases, the number of new local cases was 31,444 on November 23, of which 3,927 were symptomatic and 27,517 were asymptomatic, health authorities said on Thursday. That number broke the previous record set on April 13, when local cases hit 29,317. There was one death, compared with zero the previous day, pushing fatalities to 5,232. As of November 23, mainland China had confirmed 297,516 Covid cases with symptoms. Beijing reported 509 symptomatic new locally transmitted Covid-19 infections and 1,139 asymptomatic cases. — reuters