China Daily (Hong Kong)

Shanghai village reopens after testing

- By ZHOU WENTING in Shanghai, YANG CHENG in Tianjin and YUAN HUI in Hohhot Contact the writers at zhouwentin­g@chinadaily.com.cn

A village in Shanghai’s Pudong district, where a COVID-19 case was reported on Nov 9, was reopened on Tuesday after a 14-day lockdown as a medium-risk region for the spread of the novel coronaviru­s.

All of the nearly 3,000 residents of the Yingqian village in Zhuqiao town took nucleic acid tests on the first, sixth and 13th day of the lockdown, and all tested negative, an official from the village said.

“The residents showed highly cooperativ­e attitudes during the lockdown and were replenishe­d with food through government support once every two days,” Ma Jie, Party secretary of the village, was quoted as saying by local media Jiefang Daily.

Separately, on Tuesday, the Kanhaixuan residentia­l community in Tianjin was the country’s only high-risk area for COVID-19, and eight communitie­s or subdistric­ts in Shanghai, Tianjin, Manzhouli city of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Fuyang city of Anhui province, were categorize­d as medium-risk regions owing to the recent confirmed cases.

Shanghai reported its most recent case on Monday, the sixth local case reported since Friday and the seventh this month. Five of the total were imported cargo workers at the Shanghai Pudong Internatio­nal Airport, and two of those workers’ wives were the other two cases.

In Tianjin, an asymptomat­ic patient who tested positive on Nov 10 began showing symptoms and was diagnosed as having a mild case of COVID-19 on Monday during quarantine, the Tianjin Health Commission said.

Tianjin reported no positive coronaviru­s tests for all residents in its Binhai New Area, and several sections in the area will downgrade their alert levels on Wednesday, officials said on Tuesday.

“The area has started to conduct universal screening since Saturday morning among the 2.46 million residents and finished the sample collection work on Monday evening,” Liang Chunzao, deputy director of Binhai, told a news conference on Tuesday night.

“All testing results reported on Tuesday morning came back negative for the coronaviru­s.”

A pig head imported from North America was confirmed as the source of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, said Zhang Ying, deputy head of the Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

In Inner Mongolia, bus services were suspended starting Tuesday in Manzhouli to keep people from gathering and curb the spread of the novel coronaviru­s, the local government said. The city reported two new local cases of COVID-19 on Saturday. Citywide nucleic acid tests for all the residents started on Sunday, and sampling was completed by Tuesday afternoon.

 ?? TONG YU / CHINA NEWS SERVICE ?? A staff member oversees an automated workshop that tests nucleic acid samples from Binhai New Area in Tianjin on Monday.
TONG YU / CHINA NEWS SERVICE A staff member oversees an automated workshop that tests nucleic acid samples from Binhai New Area in Tianjin on Monday.

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