Government officials have quarantined 8,000 people and imposed new travel restrictions in northeastern China after a rash of new infections were reported in Jilin Province, state news media reported on Sunday.

Residents of Jilin, the second-largest city in the province, have been mostly barred from leaving the city starting Sunday after a cluster of infections was reported there and in the neighboring city of Shulan. Officials in Shenyang, capital of the neighboring province of Liaoning, said on Saturday that anyone who had traveled there from the city of Jilin since April 22 would be quarantined in a hospital for three weeks.

Jilin has traced nearly 700 close contacts of coronavirus patients for testing and quarantine, while officials in Liaoning Province have found more than 1,000 close contacts and about 6,500 people at high risk for infection. Six officials in the city of Jilin have been removed from their posts, the state media news reported on Sunday.

Six coronavirus cases were also reported last week in Wuhan, the city in the central province of Hubei where the outbreak began, after more than a month without any new confirmed infections there. Local officials have since announced ambitious plans to test all 11 million residents in as little as 10 days.

Zhong Nanshan, a top respiratory disease expert and adviser to the Chinese government, said in an interview with CNN on Saturday that while China had a relatively low number of infections it still faced a “big challenge” from the coronavirus because most of the population had not been exposed to it and was still susceptible to infection. “It’s not better than the foreign countries I think at the moment,” he said.

He also said that local officials had misrepresented the number of cases when the virus began spreading in Wuhan in January.

Meanwhile, officials in Hong Kong are considering the use of electronic health certificates to facilitate movement between mainland China and the semi-autonomous territory. Hong Kong’s border is currently closed to all nonresidents, but officials have raised the idea of creating a “travel bubble” as locally transmitted cases fall to almost zero and businesses continue to reopen.

Source: www.nytimes.com

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