China’s capital city of Beijing is one of the hardest hit in the latest Covid wave. Pictured here is a health worker outside a locked down apartment complex on Nov. 27, 2022.Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Mainland China reported the first decline in daily Covid infections in more than a week on Monday.The country said local infections, mostly asymptomatic, totaled 38,421, down from a record high of 40,052 reported for Sunday, according to CNBC calculations of Wind Information data.The last time the daily case count fell from the prior day was on Nov. 19, the data showed.Local infections fell in Guangdong and Chongqing, two of the hardest-hit regions in the latest Covid wave. No new deaths were reported.But the capital city of Beijing saw infections rise Monday from a day earlier, as did Shanghai, albeit at a far smaller …
