China's latest COVID-19 outbreak is developing rapidly, a health official said, as the authorities demanded high vigilance at ports of entry amid growing infections in a northeastern border city caused by the virus arriving from abroad.
Some 377 domestically transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms were reported from Oct. 17-29, National Health Commission data showed. China has tackled a series of outbreaks this year since it largely contained a national spread in early 2020.
"The outbreak is still developing rapidly, and the virus control situation is severe and complicated."Heihe, a small northeastern city of 1.3 million people that lies on China's side of the Amur river on the border with Russia, reported 26 local cases for Oct. 29, a sharp increase from nine on Oct. 28 and just one on Oct. 27.
Surveys and virus sequencing results showed the cluster in Heihe was unrelated to an ongoing outbreak hitting mainly the northwestern parts of China, indicating that there was a new source of virus brought from overseas, Wu said. The small southwestern city of Ruili bordering Myanmar has seen its once robust jewelry trade business, a pillar of its modest economy, dampened by some of the toughest virus measures in China due to repeated outbreaks.
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