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Covid-19 in China: Thousands of students quarantined as authorities fight to keep latest surge in cases under control
- Residents of two student halls in a university city in Liaoning province are ordered into quarantine, while thousands more have been isolated
- The number of new cases has started rising again as the authorities in Dalian, the city at the centre of the outbreak, battle to stop the disease spreading
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At least 10,000 students have been quarantined in a city in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning after a Covid-19 outbreak.
Two student halls in the west zone of Zhuanghe’s university town were vacated, with 3,291 of its former occupants – now considered close contacts and “high-risk” individuals – transferred to quarantine hotels, the health authorities in Dalian city said on Sunday.
The 7,884 students that lived elsewhere in the zone were not transferred to hotels, but were isolated in halls under “closed-loop management”, and other areas locked down.
“Zhuanghe has directed emergency personnel into the university town to assist with student management and to prevent infections from getting out,” Sun Gongli, acting mayor of Zhuanghe, said on Sunday.
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China’s latest wave of infections, which started on October 17, had shown sign of easing, but a spike in cases in Dalian, which has Zhuanghe under its jurisdiction, has bumped up the total again.
China reported 89 new symptomatic cases for Saturday, up from 75 a day earlier, according to a statement by the National Health Commission on Sunday.
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Eight asymptomatic cases from the community, which the ministry does not count towards the official tally, were also reported across the country.
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