Coronavirus: wedding guests told to isolate as northern China outbreak grows

Weeks-long Fujian outbreak eases but testing of people in quarantine adds 11 Covid-19 cases and three asymptomatic results in Harbin and Suihua

Bayan county ordered residents not to leave their homes and to have necessities such as food delivered to the door

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Patients recovered from Covid-19 leave the hospital in Xiamen, in eastern China’s Fujian province, on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 1:03pm, 27 Sep 2021Updated: 2:39pm, 27 Sep 2021

The Covid-19 outbreak in southeastern Chinese province of Fujian has tapered with only two cases reported in Xiamen on Sunday but the outbreak in northern Heilongjiang province is still on the rise.

In Harbin and Suihua in Heilongjiang, 11 Covid-19 cases and three who were yet to show symptoms were reported on Sunday.

All these newly registered infections were detected in the testing of people under quarantine, according to the Harbin municipal government.

Heilongjiang was on high alert after the first three local cases were reported in Harbin on Tuesday last week. A panel of experts and Ma Xiaowei, director of the National Health Commission, visited the province to offer guidance in managing the outbreak.

Experts said epidemic control was challenging because the outbreaks involved several counties – Mulan, Bayan and Songbei – and the neighbouring city of Suihua, where people travelled frequently.

Several confirmed cases also went to weddings and the Harbin government called on people who had attended those 11 weddings to be isolated.

Bayan county ordered residents not to leave their homes and to have necessities such as food delivered to the door.