Local COVID-19 cases in Jung region reach triple digits for the first time in 7 months

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[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] The number of new COVID-19 cases from community transmission in China has reached triple digits for the first time in seven months.

According to the National Health Commission of China on the 10th, 143 new confirmed cases were reported nationwide the previous day, of which 108 were community transmission cases excluding imported cases.

This is the first time in about seven months that daily new community transmission cases in China have reached triple digits since January 24 (117 cases), when COVID-19 spread mainly in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces.

The new community cases were reported in Jiangsu Province (50 cases), Henan Province (37 cases), Hubei Province (15 cases), and Hunan Province (6 cases), with particularly high numbers in Yangzhou, Jiangsu (48 cases) and Zhengzhou, Henan (35 cases).

In Yangzhou, the disease spread mainly among the elderly after an elderly man who came from Nanjing, Jiangsu, visited a mahjong parlor, and a cluster infection also occurred at a COVID-19 nucleic acid testing site.

In Zhoushan, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, a cluster infection occurred among crew members on a cargo ship arriving from overseas. Of the 20 crew members, 16 tested positive; 11 of them were transferred to isolation hospitals, while the remaining crew members are receiving treatment and waiting on board.

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