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Jilin has become the source of a potential new wave of infections, with six new cases reported yesterday, and the neighboring city of Shulan was forced to adjust the risk level to “high” from “medium” over the weekend. Gai Dongping said: “The current situation for COVID-19 is quite complex and serious, and there is a great risk that the virus will spread further.”
“To stop the spread of the epidemic, we have decided to implement control measures in the Jilin urban area.”
Five of the six new infections could be traced directly to a confirmed case in Shulan, where a cluster infection was previously identified, the local health commission said in a notice on Wednesday.
Jilin is the second largest city in Jilin province, which also shares a border with Russia.
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Five of the six new infections could be traced directly to a confirmed case in Shulan, where a cluster infection was previously identified, the local health commission said in a notice on Wednesday.
Jilin is the second largest city in Jilin province, which also shares a border with Russia.
Departure or transit passenger train services are also temporarily suspended.
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In the past two weeks, new cases have been reported in seven provinces, including Hubei, the original epicenter of the outbreak at the end of last year.
In Wuhan, the city where the disease was first identified late last year, five new cases were confirmed on Monday, all of which live in the same residential complex.
One was the wife of an 89-year-old man who tested positive the day before, the first confirmed case in Wuhan in more than a month.
A campaign was launched today to assess the 11 million Wuhan residents as fears grew about the possibility of a second wave of infections.
At least two of the city’s main districts have sent out flyers to residents and sent out online questionnaires.
One, sent to people living in the city’s Wuchang district, which has a population of approximately 1.2 million, said: “To make better use of nucleic acid testing as a monitoring tool and in accordance with the requirements of the state cabinet to expand testing, we After considering it, we decided to test for all residents. “
Residents of the Wuchang and Hankou districts, which have a population of over 2.6 million, have been asked to provide personal details, including any history of nucleic acid testing and whether they belonged to any of the 12 “key groups “
The 12 “key groups” include confirmed and asymptomatic cases of coronavirus and their close contacts, people with fever, school workers, doctors, transportation, banks, supermarkets, and governments, and people returning from abroad or planning to leave Wuhan for go to work.
Asymptomatic cases, or people who have tested positive but do not show clinical symptoms such as fever, are able to transmit the virus to others.
China does not release estimates of the number of such cases.
Officially, China has 84,021 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of which 4,637 have died, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, although skeptics, including United States President Donald Trump, have suggested that both Figures are significant underestimates.
