This follows mass infections and deaths from last December to January.

A Pudong, Shanghai resident told The Epoch Times on June 21 that his father recently developed white lungs from a COVID-19 infection and died.

Others reported COVID-19-related illness, deaths, and reinfections among family members.

Dr. Bai of Beijing Anzhen Hospital posted on Chinese social media that he had been reinfected with COVID-19, and the department director had also been infected and was suffering severe symptoms. They were both infected by patients.

In the southeastern city of Fuzhou, "the new wave of infections has been very serious in the past month or so," A. Liang, a Fuzhou resident, told The Epoch Times.

Many people around him were infected.

"Although the symptoms are not as severe as the first wave, it's very contagious," he said.