Beijing on Saturday urged all its districts to maintain “full emergency mode” as the city continues to report new local cases of coronavirus. Covid-19Less than two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympic Games.
A total of 27 internally transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms and five local asymptomatic carriers have been found in Beijing since Jan. 15, Pang Xinghuo, an official with the city’s disease control authority, told a news conference.
Separately, the northeastern city of Harbin will hold a territory-wide exercise to test its 10 million people for Covid-19 starting Monday, though it has had no recent cases, calling it a preventive move. before the Lunar New Year holidays.
In recent weeks, cities across China have imposed tighter restrictions to try to control further outbreaks of Covid-19, a task that has also taken on added urgency as Beijing prepares to host the Winter Games early next month.
Many cities have advised residents to stay home or required travelers to report their movements days before arrival.
Mainland China reported 63 new cases of Covid-19 on January 21, up from 73 the day before, the country’s national health authority said.
The National Health Commission said in a statement that 23 of the new cases were locally transmitted, the same as a day earlier, and the rest were imported.
The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to 43 from 31 a day earlier. There were no new deaths, leaving the death toll at 4,636.