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Coronavirus: northern China battens down to contain outbreaks
- More than two dozen community cases added to national tally amid tourism-linked clusters
- No initial source identified as Covid-19 spreads to seven regions and provinces
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Beijing tightened entry restrictions into the city and Gansu province suspended all tourism as authorities across northern China took sweeping measures to stem a rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak linked to travel groups.
Beijing authorities moved on Sunday to restrict travellers from places with confirmed cases, requiring a negative Covid-19 test and 14 days of health monitoring for any person wanting to enter the capital.
By Sunday afternoon, one Beijing district had recorded 10 cases in the space of two days, after more than two months without a case of community transmission in the capital.
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The moves came as China announced 26 new community cases of Covid-19 for Saturday, with outbreaks in multiple provinces and health authorities on alert as winter approaches.
“There is an increasing risk of further spread of this epidemic,” National Health Commission spokesman Mi Feng said on Sunday.
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“Areas experiencing the epidemic should quickly enter a state of emergency, and areas where there is no epidemic, should strengthen monitoring and early warnings.”
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