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China reports no new local Covid cases for first time since July

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China's health authority has reported that there were no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 for the first time since July, offering more signs the current outbreak that began late last month maybe tapering off soon.

The latest outbreak was driven mainly by infections first detected on 20 July among a few airport workers in the eastern city of Nanjing who had been contracted to the highly transmissible Delta variant, first identified in India.

Since then, more than 1,200 people in China have been confirmed to be infected, though not all of them were cases of the Delta variant.

The outbreak has spurred local authorities across the country to impose tough counter-epidemic measures including mass testing for millions of people to

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