{"id":1794,"date":"2020-03-16T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2020-03-16T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T05:52:15","slug":"china-sees-fewer-coronavirus-cases-wary-international-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/china-sees-fewer-coronavirus-cases-wary-international-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"China sees fewer coronavirus cases, wary of international travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mainland China reported an overall drop in new coronavirus infections on Sunday, but major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai continued to wrestle with cases involving infected travelers arriving from abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1795\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1795 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/download-1584332526-1068x712.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wearing protective face masks are seen on a crossroads as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 9, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainland China had 16 new confirmed cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said on Monday, down from 20 a day earlier. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in China so far to 80,860.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the new figures, 12 were imported infections, exceeding locally transmitted cases for the third day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing accounted for four of the cases, Guangdong province four, Shanghai two, Yunnan province one and Gansu province one. That brings the total number of imported cases to 123 so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China has tightened checks on international travelers, with the capital of Beijing requiring anyone arriving from abroad to be transferred to city quarantine facilities for 14 days, starting Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing has redirected all international flights that were scheduled to land at its new Daxing International Airport in the south to the older Beijing Capital International Airport in the northeast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shanghai has designated hotels serving as quarantine venues for inbound international travelers, though the financial hub has not made it compulsory yet for all travelers to be quarantined at such venues on arrival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mainland China\u2019s only locally transmitted new infections on Sunday were in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak and capital of Hubei province, with four cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the 11th consecutive day that the central province recorded zero new infections outside of Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The death toll from the outbreak in China had reached 3,213 as of the end of Sunday, up by 14 from the previous day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Hubei, there were 14 new deaths, with Wuhan accounting for 13 of the fatalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: tuoitrenews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainland China reported an overall drop in new coronavirus infections on Sunday, but major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai continued to wrestle with cases involving infected travelers arriving from abroad. Mainland China had 16 new confirmed cases on Sunday, the National Health Commission said on Monday, down from 20 a day earlier. 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