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Coronavirus: China’s daily new cases dip to two-week low
- Most of the 30 infections reported in the eastern city of Yangzhou where a strict lockdown is in effect
- City offers rewards for reporting residents evading mass testing
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China reported 30 locally transmitted coronavirus cases on Saturday, the lowest daily total in two weeks and a further sign that the month-long outbreak could be waning.
In all, 18 of the new cases were from the eastern province of Jiangsu, four were from Henan, four from Hubei, three were from Hunan and one case was from the southwestern province of Yunnan.
In addition, 19 asymptomatic cases were reported on Saturday, 18 of them imported and one locally transmitted, the National Health Commission said.
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The latest outbreak started on July 20 in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu, and spread to 48 cities in 18 provinces, infecting 1,282 people as of Friday, according to NHC official He Qinghua.
Of those cities, 36 had not reported new infections in the past five days and most of the others had only had sporadic cases, He said.
Wang Jinsong, deputy head of Yangzhou’s health commission, said on Saturday morning that all of the new confirmed infections in Jiangsu were in the city of Yangzhou, where the initial infection was traced to a woman who visited several mahjong parlours after returning from Nanjing.
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