Weeks ahead of the staging of the Olympic Winter Games, the Chinese capital, Beijing, has reported its first locally transmitted infection of the Omicron version, according to state media.

Pang Jinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, said at a news briefing that lab testing found mutations specific to the Omicron variant.…

This data comes from the ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform.