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Is It Back? New Cases in China Spark Unease

GICexpat 2020-08-23


An untraced coronavirus outbreak in Shulan, a city in Jilin province near the Russian border, and a spate of new cases in Hubei’s Wuhan have prompted fears of a fresh wave of infections in China after weeks of decline and easing restrictions nationwide that seemingly had us thinking that the worst might have been behind us. 



What’s happening in Shulan?


On Sunday, Chinese authorities reclassified Shulan, a city near the Russian and North Korean borders, as high risk, after a cluster of cases connected to a woman with no known history of travel or exposure to the virus arose.

 

It came just a week after China designated all regions in the country as low or medium risk. The country’s national health commission reported 17 new cases in China, its second day of a double-digit rise and its highest number in nearly two weeks. 


Five locally transmitted cases were in three provinces which border Russia or North Korea – three in Jilin province, and one each in Heilongjiang and Liaoning.


All of Jilin’s new cases were in Shulan city, including a 28-year-old woman, a 45-year-old man and a 56-year-old man, bringing the city’s total to 12.



The source of the infections are still under investigation, according to the Shulan government, although Jilin provincial health commission it originated with a 45-year-old woman who has no residential or travel history outside the province, and no known contact history with people returning from overseas or key provinces.



What about Wuhan?


Chinese authorities have also reported five new cases on Sunday in the city of Wuhan, making it its highest number of new infections since March 11. 


The small cluster is the first to emerge since the end of the strict lockdown on April 8. One of the five cases reported was the wife of an 89-year-old man who became the first confirmed case in the city in well over a month on Sunday.


This quick rise in new cases quickly sparked concern on Weibo, with one user commenting: “We still need to take protective measures, five cases is really terrible.”

Another one wrote: “Before [now] there were almost no transfers from asymptomatic to confirmed diagnosis in Hubei province. The government should respond to social concerns in a timely manner.”


“It’s not easy to slow it down,” wrote a third. “I felt a little relaxed and now it starts again, and I’m starting to panic again. Come on, Wuhan.”


As more parts of Europe and the US begin to ease restrictions, governments and health experts have warned that the pandemic is far from over.




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