Global report: Beijing Covid-19 cluster may have begun a month earlier – China health official

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Beijing's cluster of new coronavirus cases may have begun a month earlier than first thought, partly due to asymptomatic infections, according to the director of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Amid tight restrictions to stop the spread of the capital's cluster, which now numbers more than 150 cases, Gao Fu said the outbreak probably did not occur in early June or late May, but probably a month earlier, according to state media.