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Residential buildings and access to a hospital were isolated in the Chinese city of Qingdao (east) after three asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 were detected, local health officials announced on Sunday.
The municipal Health Commission indicated that the first two cases were detected in a hospital assistant, where infections from abroad are treated, and in her husband, a taxi driver.
The third asymptomatic man is a 58-year-old man with tuberculosis, who was admitted again to that hospital, specializing in respiratory diseases, after being discharged a few days earlier.
Authorities said they immediately began testing close contacts of those infected, using nucleic acid tests, taking closed the entrances and exits of the buildings where these three people lived, the medical center in question and also the emergency room of the central hospital of Qingdao, a city of 9.5 million inhabitants.
In the same statement, the authorities asked the population to maintain hygiene measures and physical distance, recalling the need to go to a designated clinic for the first symptoms related to covid-19.
China announced today that it has detected 21 cases of covid-19 in foreign travelers, when it adds 56 consecutive days without local infections.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has registered 85,557 infected and 4,634 deaths from covid-19.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million sixty-nine thousand deaths and close to 37 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the Americas are now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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