As severe flooding overwhelmed the city of Zhengzhou, a new surge of COVID-19 was reported over the weekend in Henan and other nearby provinces. The Chinese regime announced that nearly three dozen people are infected with the Delta variant in Zhengzhou, and residents are worried that authorities are concealing the severity of the situation.
On Aug. 1, the Chinese regime announced that new COVID cases were reported in Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, Shandong, Hubei, Hainan, Anhui, and Ningxia. Authorities did not disclose the number of confirmed cases, but they believe the new surge in infections began in Nanjing city, Jiangsu Province on July 20, where 204 cases were reported as of July 31.