China reports more than 100 new COVID-19 cases for seventh day
19 January, 2021
China reported a lot more than 100 new COVID-19 cases for a seventh evening on Tuesday (Jan 19) in the worst household outbreak since March last year, with one northeastern province seeing an archive daily increase.
Mainland China posted 118 new cases on Mon, up from 109 a day previous, the national health authority said in a statement.
Of these, 106 were local infections, with 43 reported in Jilin, a fresh daily record for the northeastern province, and 35 in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, the National Health Commission said.
The Chinese capital itself reported one latest case, while Heilongjiang in the north reported 27 new infections.
Millions of persons have been under lockdown in recent days seeing as some northern cities undergo mass assessment for the coronavirus amid worries that undetected infections could spread quickly through the Chinese New Year vacation, which is just weeks away.
Hundreds of millions of men and women travel through the holiday, due to start in mid-February this season, as migrant staff return home to see family.
Authorities have got appealed to people in order to avoid travel found in the run-up to the holiday and stay away from mass gatherings such as weddings.
The existing outbreak in Jilin was due to an infected salesman travelling to and from the neighbouring province of Heilongjiang, the site of a previous cluster of infections.
The entire number of new asymptomatic cases, which China will not classify as confirmed infections, fell to 91 from 115 a day earlier.
The full total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China is 89,454, as the death toll remained unchanged at 4,635.
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