Beijing reports one local case after two months

Beijing reported one new locally transmitted COVID-19 case in Fengtai district on Tuesday morning, after more than two months of zero new local cases being recorded in the city.

According to Fengtai district officials, the confirmed case was a close contact of a recently confirmed case in Ningxia Hui autonomous region on train K42 from Dunhuang, Gansu, to Beijing.

The case arrived in Beijing on Saturday and reported to local community after several cases in other provinces were recorded on Monday. The patient was sent to hospital and the local authority has closed the related areas and started epidemiological investigation.

Before the new case, Beijing did not see any new locally transmitted case since Aug 11.

The Chinese mainland on Monday reported nine new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.

Of the new local cases, five were reported in Shaanxi, two in Inner Mongolia, and one each in Hunan and Ningxia.

Shaanxi province identified six new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and one asymptomatic carrier among a tour group in Xi'an on Sunday, raising the possibility that some neighboring regions such as the Ningxia Hui and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions would be affected, local authorities said on Monday.

The National Health Commission sent working teams to Inner Mongolia, Gansu province, Shaanxi and Ningxia on Monday afternoon to guide epidemic control efforts related to tourists.