Discharged Patient Tested Positive, Putting 31 In Quarantine

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Discharged COVID-19 Patient Tested Positive, Putting 31 In Quarantine

▲ People returning to work after the long Spring Festival holidays take subway from Guangzhou South Railway Station, a railway hub of Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, to downtown of the city on February 8, 2020. Photo/cnsphoto

Local authorities in Maoming, a city in South China's Guangdong Province, tracked down 31 close contacts of a recovered coronavirus patient who had tested positive again last Thursday, and 26 of them returned negative test results, the local government said on Tuesday.

A 63-year-old patient surnamed Chen had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 infection in January and tested positive again in a random nucleic acid test on Thursday. He was then transferred to a local hospital and put into isolation for treatment. Without showing symptoms such as a fever and cough, he then tested negative on Friday and Saturday respectively.

Local data shows that 14 percent of discharged patients in Guangdong Province test positive again, but they have not infected others.

As of 7pm Monday, local authorities had tracked down 31 close contacts of Chen, and all have been put under medical observation and undergone nucleic acid testing. 26 turned out to have negative test results, while five others are still waiting for their test results to come back.

China has been accelerating work resumption since April while top-down authorities have been vigilant in preventing a resurgence of clusters of infection. However, since the end of April, there have been several cases in Guangdong that spread beyond local districts and even to other provinces.

For instance, on April 29, local authorities in Shenzhen, another city in the province, reported a new case of infection from Zengcheng district of Guangzhou, capital city of the province. On April 28, local authorities in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region - a neighboring province to Guangdong - had reported a close contact of a confirmed case that was found in Zengcheng district.

Resource: Global Times

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Student Deaths Stir Controversy Over Face Mask Rule in PE Classes

▲ Senior year students at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China in Beijing walk out of the school on Monday, their first day back school after stay-at-home learning for two months amid coronavirus pandemic. Photo/Yang Ruoyu/GT

Netizens have expressed outrage over recent cases in which two middle school students reportedly died after running while wearing face masks in Physical Education (PE) classes. Experts suggest there is no need for students in low-risk regions to wear masks while having classes in broad and open spaces.

A 14-year-old schoolboy in Central China's Hunan Province suddenly died while taking part in a sports class on Friday. The student reportedly died from breathing problems while running with an N95 mask during the 1km physical test.

Similarly, another junior student in Central China's Henan Province also died in a PE class on April 24 when running while wearing a face mask. The student's father said surveillance video showed that he ran around a sports field, suddenly leaned back and fell to the ground, reported Jiankang Shibao, a health-focused newspaper, on Monday.

The parents suspected that their son died as a result of running with a mask, which is required under the school rules amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

The reports drew a great deal of controversy and discussion on social media. Some netizens criticized the practice of requiring students to wear masks during PE class, calling it unnecessary and also dangerous.

The school regulations for COVID-19 prevention should not be hard-and-fast, but flexible and take into account students' physical conditions. Otherwise the so-called prevention rule is just a formalism," commented one netizen on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform.

Though many slammed the idea of running while wearing masks, experts pointed out there was no positive causal relationship between them.

The students' deaths might have resulted from other underlying causes, like some other diseases. Doing exercise with a mask on won't necessarily lead to sudden death directly," Zhang Shunan, a respiratory expert from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Other experts also pointed out that there are many causes of sudden death, including prolonged periods of inactivity during an outbreak and inadequate warming up before running, reported Guancha.cn on Sunday.

However, Zhang suggested that schools in low-risk regions do not have to require students to wear masks while having outdoor classes in open spaces such as sports fields.

In outdoor classes, as long as students keep a social distance from each other, they should be safe even without a mask," said Zhang.

Resource: Global Times

Holiday Economy Rebounds

▲ Many tourists go to the Shenzhen Bay Park in South China's Guangdong Province to enjoy the scenery on May 1. Photo/VCG

China on Tuesday marked a milestone in its efforts to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, as over 100 million tourists flocked to popular attraction sites across the country during the just-concluded May Day holiday and spent billions of dollars, all while averting a much-feared resurgence of COVID-19 cases.

While the final tally on trips and consumption during the five-day holiday remains low compared to that of last year due largely to remaining anti-epidemic efforts and lingering fear of the virus, it offered a much-needed boost of confidence to the Chinese economy and a sound path for recovery going forward that strikes a balance between necessary efforts to prevent a resurgence of the virus and a gradual opening of more sectors, Chinese analysts noted on Tuesday. 

Economic activities are expected to further pick up pace in the weeks and months ahead as progress during the holiday helped allay concerns among many businesses and consumers and encourage gradually relaxing restrictions in certain areas, they said. 

During the five-day holiday, Chinese travelers made a total 115 million trips, down 41 percent compared to last year, according to data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Tuesday. Total tourism spending reached 47.6 billion yuan ($6.74 billion), down nearly $10 billion from last year, the ministry said.

This year marks the first time in 12 years that China extended the three-day May Day holiday to five days, a measure designed specifically to boost consumption and economic growth. 

The capital city received 4.63 million trips, about 55 percent of last year's figure, and raised revenue of 4.18 billion yuan, about 36 percent of last year, official data showed.

Resource: Global Times

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Shanghai Disneyland to Reopen on May 11

Disney said its Shanghai Disneyland theme park will reopen to the public on May 11. 

Shanghai Disneyland has been closed since January. Shanghai's Disneytown, Wishing Star Park and Shanghai Disneyland Hotel reopened in March.

This will mark the first reopening of a Disney theme park since the pandemic prompted the shutdown of theme parks around the world. 

Disney will require guests to wear masks, except when dining, and go through temperature screenings as well as use the government-issued Shanghai Health QR code, a contact tracing and early detection system used in China. 

Disney said it will also control guest density, limit attendance with an advanced reservation and entry system, increase sanitization and disinfection measures, and train employees on contactless guest interaction.

Disney Parks Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Pamela Hymel, said in a statement to guests that this is "an encouraging sign for Disney parks and retail locations all over the world." 

Hymel said that the company is working on a plan for domestic US parks to reopen in phases, including the use of virtual queues.

Hymel did not specify whether guests to US Disney theme parks might have to wear face masks, but said, "We'll follow guidance from the government and the medical community regarding enhanced screening measures and prevention measures, including those related to personal protective equipment (PPE), such as face coverings."

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