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144 cases in China, authorities advise against traveling
China has registered 144 new cases of contagion by Covid-19, the maximum since last March 1. In addition to nine infections from abroad, 90 cases have developed in Hebei province, which borders Beijing, and 43 in the far northeast of Heilongjiang, the two main outbreaks in the latest wave of infections. The national health commission also registers 66 new asymptomatic cases of contagion, counted separately from the total number of confirmed cases. Authorities are dissuading citizens from traveling during the upcoming weeks of the Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on February 12; According to data released by the deputy director general of Chinese Railways (China Railway Group), Li Wenxin, the pre-sale of tickets to travel by train during the holidays plummeted to 296 million, compared to 410 million in 2019, the last year not to be marked by the pandemic.
