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Suspecting a surge of covid infection again, China has now begun testing of its over 11 million people. This is a year after it reportedly contained the deadly virus.
Coronavirus first emerged in China in 2019 and spiralled into a pandemic across world. The country claimed it has controlled covid infection but several provinces reported fresh infections.
Wuhan, which became famous all over the world for its first coronavirus lockdown early last year, broke the zero-infection record since June 2020, as seven new COVID-19 cases were reported. This led to beginning of a city-wide testing.
The city has upgraded its epidemic response measures in the face of the recent coronavirus infections, locking down the area where COVID-19 infections have been reported while upgrading its risk levels.
All schools have been closed and officials in cities, including Beijing and Dalian, have told residents to stay home over summer as they try to stop the spread of the virus. Anyone from a city where cases have been reported is barred from entering Beijing, and transport from those places has been halted.
According to reports 61 new locally-transmitted covid cases have been reported from different provinces, including Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Yunnan besides Beijing, Shanghai and Fujian. This is in addition to a host of imported cases of Chinese nationals returning home from different countries.
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The municipal authorities of Zhangjiajie, a tourist destination in China’s south Hunan province where the new clusters of cases were reported, and spread to 15 Chinese provinces, banned people from leaving the city.
China has so far reported 93,193 COVID-19 cases, including 1,157 patients still receiving treatment, and 4,636 deaths.
