Locked-Down City’s Police Launch Probe Into Disease Exposure by ‘Patient Zero’
A medical worker verifies a resident’s personal information in Tonghua, Northeast China’s Jilin province.
Police in the northeastern Chinese city that suffered food shortages during its Covid-19 lockdown have opened an investigation into whether the “patient zero” of the latest outbreak violated any infectious disease prevention rules.
The procuratorate of Tonghua, Jilin province, identified the patient as a man with an asymptomatic Covid-19 infection surnamed Lin who was hired by a local company on Jan. 9 to work in the city’s Dongchang district, where the first two confirmed cases of the outbreak were reported three days later.