Coronavirus: China locks down two cities a year after Wuhan
Residents in parts of Hebei province are restricted as part of measures to stem the coronavirus surge. Authorities finished carrying out a mass COVID-19 testing of all 13 million residents of Xingtai and Shijiazhuang.
Most of the locally-transmitted cases were found in China s Hebei province
The daily number of new coronavirus cases has doubled in China, the country s national health authority reported on Sunday.
Mainland China registered 69 cases on Saturday, compared with 33 reported a day earlier. The National Health Commission reported that 21 of those people had been infected overseas.
The country also reported 27 asymptomatic cases on Saturday, down from 38 a day earlier. China does not classify asymptomatic patients as confirmed cases.
Residents in parts of Hebei province are restricted as part of measures to stem the coronavirus surge. Authorities finished carrying out a mass COVID-19 testing of all 13 million residents of Xingtai and Shijiazhuang.
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The WHO plans to dispatch a 10-person team of experts to get to the bottom of the virus s origins and exactly how it first crossed over to humans.
Reuters news agency quoted WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan as saying two had been denied entry already. He said one had turned back and one was in a third country.
The origins of the virus remain contested amongst scientists. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin and that it was instead only amplified there.
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