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11 new COVID-19 cases in China’s lone outbreak


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2021 Apr 08, 9:50, BEIJING
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a resident goes through health screening to enter a supermarket in Ruili, southwestern China's Yunnan Province, on April 1, 2021. COVID-19 cases in the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili bordering on Myanmar have now topped 100 on Monday, April 5, 2021. That comes as authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city, whose outbreak is something of an anomaly in a country that has all-but eliminated local transmission of the virus (Photo via AP)

Chinese officials say 11 more people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in a southwestern city bordering Myanmar that is the scene of China’s current sole active outbreak.

Cases in the Yunnan province city of Ruili have topped 100, including those not showing symptoms.

However, large-scale transmission appears to have been curbed by a campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city. People there have been told to stay home and 45 residential compounds are under complete lockdown.

China has virtually stamped out new local cases across the country through aggressive lockdowns, mask-wearing, electronic monitoring and other measures. With most economic and social activity resuming, those measures are being gradually reduced, although mask-wearing indoors and on public transport remains almost universal.

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