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QIngdao, a coastal city in eastern China, has completed coronavirus testing for its 11 million residents after an outbreak, and has found no new infections.
As of Friday, all 10.9 million samples tested negative.
Xue Qingguo, deputy mayor of Qingdao, told state broadcaster CCTV that the risk of community transmission “is basically eliminated.”
The city-wide test was ordered after 13 people were infected in China’s first locally transmitted cases in more than two months.
The source of the outbreak can be traced to two dock workers who tested positive for the virus in September but did not show any symptoms. They had visited a hospital in Qingdao and were sent to a CT scan room, which was not properly disinfected and caused other patients to be infected, according to health officials.
The director of the Health Commission, Sui Zhenhua, and Deng Kai, the president of the Qingdao Thoracic Hospital to which the cases have been linked, have been investigated in connection with the outbreak.
On Saturday, the National Health Commission reported 13 new imported cases. China has reported 4,634 deaths among 85,659 confirmed cases.
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