Mainland China reports 6 new COVID-19 cases
28 April, 2020
Mainland China reported six new COVID-19 cases on Monday (Arp 27), up from three reported a day earlier, putting its final number of COVID-19 infections to date at 82,836.
The National Health Commission said in a statement on Tuesday the number of imported cases involving travellers from overseas rose to three on Monday from a day earlier.
New asymptomatic cases, involving patients infected with the virus however, not showing symptoms, rose to 40 on Monday from 25 the previous day.
The full total number of deaths in the mainland from COVID-19 remained unchanged at 4,633.
On Monday, US President Donald Trump said China could have stopped the spread of COVID-19 and that the united states is conducting "serious investigations" in to the matter.
The other day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the united states "strongly believed" Beijing failed to report the outbreak regularly and covered up how dangerous the respiratory illness due to the virus was.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Twitter on Monday Pompeo should "stop playing the political game. Better save energy on saving lives".
On Monday, the top of a high state research institute in China said the united states will focus testing on high-risk groups, such as for example persons from infected areas or people that have symptoms.
The federal government said recently that it intends to handle more widespread testing to quickly identify and isolate carriers, following spikes in cases associated with people arriving from abroad and new local transmissions.
But China has acknowledged that accuracy of tests should be improved and more laboratories ought to be create as plans.
"(The country's) current testing strategy matches our epidemic control and prevention strategy," Jin Qi, president of the Institute of Pathogen Biology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College.
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