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Outpatient services have been suspended at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre and Renji Hospital, also prompting the lockdown of surrounding residential communities.
China is back in emergency mode, racing to contain COVID surge before holiday By Grace Qi WHO team in China probing COVID-19 s origins
Beijing China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp with more than 4,000 isolation suites in Hebei Province, a region just outside Beijing at the center of a resurgent coronavirus epidemic. Ahead of a holiday that normally sparks the biggest mass-movement of humans on the planet, authorities have put tens of millions of people under strict lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19 a year after it first surfaced.
The new isolation center spans more than 108 acres on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang city, the provincial capital of Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing. It will temporarily house close contacts and secondary contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients so they can be kept under medical observation for any signs of infection.
City s COVID test results to be rechecked By ZHANG YU in Shijiazhuang and ZHOU HUIYING in Harbin | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-19 06:51 Share CLOSE A medical worker collects a throat swab from a resident in Nangong county, Xingtai, Hebei province on Jan 17, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Governor of Hebei makes pledge after testing agency fails to report new patients
The results of nucleic acid testing conducted by different agencies in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, will be rechecked to ensure that no one was left out and guarantee that the data was correct in the city, officials said on Monday.
Hebei Governor Xu Qin made the pledge on Monday morning several hours after Xingtai, another hard-hit city in the province, reported three positive results that had been deliberately omitted by its testing agency.
China Blames Third-Party Lab Firm for Falsifying Data From CCP Virus Epicenter
Chinese authorities punished a COVID-19 testing agency employee who allegedly falsified virus data in the virus-embattled Hebei Province.
The employee, only identified by his surname Di, works for Jinan Huaxi Medical Laboratory Co., the laboratory outsourced to process virus tests in Longyao county of Hebei. The northern province has seen a worsening outbreak since the start of the year and has so far publicly reported hundreds of cases. To prevent virus spread, it shut down multiple cities and canceled a key annual political meeting originally scheduled for Jan. 25.