China reports 12 new coronavirus cases, 8 imported
20 April, 2020
China reported 12 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday (Apr 19), down from 16 a day earlier, without new deaths, the country's health authority said on Monday.
Of the total, eight were imported, down from nine on the prior day, the National Health Commission said in its daily bulletin.
There have been four cases of local infection, including three in the northeastern border province of Heilongjiang and one in Inner Mongolia.
China also reported 49 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on the mainland on Sunday, compared with 44 a day earlier.
Mainland China now comes with an accumulated total of 82,747 cases and 4,632 deaths by Sunday.
The northeastern province of Heilongjiang has seen a growth in infected travellers arriving from Russia in recent weeks, and is now battling to contain a flare-up in local cases.
To help support the outbreak, the Heilongjiang government is cautioning against family gatherings, cross infections at hospitals, and slow reporting in epidemic investigations, it said on the provincial government's website.
"The largest political task at the moment is to stop the rebound and spread of the epidemic," Wang Yongkang, vice governor of Heilongjiang, was quoted as saying on Friday.
Elsewhere in mainland China, every area in central Hubei province including Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in China, are now considered low risk.
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