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COVID-19 pandemic in Zhejiang

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ84029514 ↗
Source-derived summary

The COVID-19 pandemic reached the province of Zhejiang, China.

Statistics

Distribution of cases in prefecture-level cities

The following is the distribution of confirmed cases in prefecture-level cities, and the sources of the data are the official websites of prefecture-level cities.

Timeline

2021

2022

2023

On Jan. 9, authorities in Zhejiang province said the province had passed the peak of its first wave of infections.

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This entry incorporates text from “COVID-19 pandemic in Zhejiang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.