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China Sees Anti-virus Exports Surge after Omicron Reported: Times

CHINA PRESS
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Some Chinese exporters are seeing orders for Covid prevention items doubling as new outbreaks of the Omicron items cause panic around the world, the Global Times said citing industry insiders. Most orders, including for facial masks, test kits and oxygen machines, so far come from Europe and Africa, where the variant was reported to the WHO on Nov. 24, it said. China is also fast-developing vaccines targeting the Omicron variant, the newspaper said citing Zheng Zhongwei, an official at the National Health Commission and head of vaccine development.

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