11 new COVID-19 infections imported from India reported on cargo ship at E China’s Zhoushan
Chen Shasha Published: Apr 29, 2021 06:13 PM
A ship berths at Ningbo Zhoushan port on Tuesday. Official data showed that Ningbo Zhoushan port handled cargo throughput of 193.34 million tons in January and February, a year-on-year increase of 18.4 percent. Photo:cnsphoto
Eleven Chinese crew members on a cargo ship at Zhoushan city, East China s Zhejiang Province, were reported to be imported COVID-19 infections from India, with all of them sent to hospital for treatment, while the nine other Chinese crew members remain on the ship for observation.
The cargo ship, Huayang Chaoyang, is registered in China s Hong Kong SAR, according to the announcement from the Zhoushan Health Commission.
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This has come after the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the B.1.617 variant of coronavirus has been found in nearly 17 countries
At least 10 Chinese sailors have been infected with an imported variant of coronavirus, health authorities reported on Thursday.
The infections were found on a cargo ship docked at a port in eastern China. These cases have been reported in the last 24 hours and are among the 20 Chinese crew members of the cargo ship.
Health officials of Zhejiang reported that of these 11 cases of imported Covid infection, one sailor was asymptomatic.
While the cargo ship, Huayang Chaoyang, is now docked at the Zhoushan port, it had also docked at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh earlier this year in addition to making stops at Chittagong in Bangladesh, Singapore, and Xiamen in China.
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