China Officially Reports COVID-19 Outbreak Has Spread to Southern Coastal Province Guangdong
China’s ruling communist party has released official reports saying that the latest outbreak of COVID-19 has spread to a third province after months of reports about the country having COVID-19 cases. On May 21, a case was reported in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of China’s southern coastal province Guangdong, causing closure and lockdown of a youth center and a university. Meanwhile, more cases have occurred in Yingkou, Liaoning province, triggering the northeastern city to raise its emergency response level to three.
Guangzhou authorities announced at a press conference that a 75-year-old female patient went to the fever clinic of Liwan District Central Hospital on May 20 and tested positive for COVID-19.