Tibet Reports First Covid Cases Since January 2020

What’s new: China’s Tibet autonomous region on Monday reported four positive Covid-19 cases, the first in the remote region in two and a half years.

The patients tested positive Sunday during routine nucleic acid testing in Burang county, which borders India and Nepal, local health authorities said in a statement (link in Chinese). All four people were travelers from other parts of Tibet, asymptomatic and aged between 47 and 61.