China Reports Increase to 15 Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Reimportation
[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] Two additional cases of COVID-19 re-importation have been reported in China, bringing the total to 15 cases.
On the 4th, Beijing announced that two additional COVID-19 re-importation cases from Iran and Italy were reported the previous day. Earlier, Beijing had confirmed positive nucleic acid test results in two people returning from Iran, resulting in a total of four re-imported confirmed cases within Beijing alone.
Including the Beijing cases, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 re-importation cases in China has increased to 15. There have been eight confirmed cases from Italy in Zhejiang Province, two confirmed cases from Iran in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and one confirmed case from the UK in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province.
China is raising quarantine measures for arrivals from high-risk countries and regions for infectious diseases such as South Korea, Iran, Italy, and Japan to prevent COVID-19 re-importation.
Within China, new confirmed cases have remained in the 100s for two consecutive days, showing progress in quarantine efforts. On the 3rd alone, 38 deaths and 119 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported.
The National Health Commission of China (NHC) announced on the 4th at midnight that 119 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were added in China. Of these 119 cases, 115 were patients from Hubei Province. Most of these patients (114) were from Wuhan City, known as the outbreak epicenter in Hubei Province. The newly reported death toll was 38, with 37 deaths in Hubei Province and one additional death in Inner Mongolia. The number of newly reported suspected cases was 143.
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So far, a total of 80,270 people in China have been confirmed with COVID-19. Among them, 49,856 have recovered and been discharged, and 2,981 have died. Currently, 27,433 confirmed patients are receiving treatment in hospitals. The number of suspected cases is 520, and those under medical observation total 36,432.
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