CBN丨COVID-19 surge affects 10 provinces, but better positioned with increasing vaccination

Delta is back, again. This time, the Northwest suffers the blow. Since two tourists originally from Shanghai were found COVID-19 positive in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province on October 16. Health experts believe the sporadic outbreaks are common and China is able to to curb the epidemic resurgence soon. Shao Yiming, a leading physician and immunologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said China's epidemic prevention and control strategy in the past had proven effective as more than 80 percent of the population is now fully vaccinated.