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BEIJING (REUTERS) – China reported 24 new cases of Covid-19 in mainland China on Sunday (December 13), up from 13 cases the day before, as authorities monitored possible contacts in the Hainan domestic tourism hot spot.
There were five local cases and 19 imported infections on Saturday, according to a statement from the National Health Commission.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, fell to 14 from 17 a day earlier.
As of Saturday, mainland China had 86,725 confirmed coronavirus cases, the health authority said. The death toll from Covid-19 remained at 4,634.
Two tourists visiting Sanya in Hainan, China’s southernmost island province, were found to be in close contact with an asymptomatic case in Xi’an, northwest China, after having lunch with this person last Wednesday.
Hainan, known as the “Hawaii of China,” has been free of the coronavirus for six months, attracting eager shoppers to duty-free shopping malls, couples seeking a subtropical backdrop for wedding photography, and surfers who just they seek to “breathe freely.” .
The two tourists and 43 other people who were in close contact are being quarantined in Sanya, according to a statement on the city’s official WeChat account.
The Xinjiang region, in the far western part of China, saw a sharp increase in local Covid-19 cases from mid-July to mid-August and another local wave from late October to early November.
After the National Day holiday in October, a new wave of the pandemic occurred and local cases were first reported in Qingdao, in the north China’s Shandong province.
In November, sporadic cases were reported in the districts of Shanghai and Tianjin and the Inner Mongolia region in the north, while in December more local cases were reported in the provinces of Sichuan in the southwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. .
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