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Authorities are shipping thousands of prefabricated rooms to Shijiazhuang, capital of North China's Hebei province, as the city moves to battle a resurgence of COVID-19 outbreak.
North China's Hebei province reported 81 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and four locally transmitted asymptomatic cases on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said on Thursday.
A large-scale transfer of thousands of people to centralized quarantine facilities is taking place in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, as the local government ramps up efforts to further strengthen its measures against the outbreak.
From his home in Wuhan, Hubei province, Wei Fei headed toward Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Jan 8 without notifying his wife or other family members.
Contact tracing to find the origin of coronavirus infections in Hebei province is focusing on the period from early November to Dec 15, according to an expert from the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
The epidemic in Hebei province remains complex and grim, with more confirmed cases reported and asymptomatic cases related to the outbreak in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, found in neighboring regions.
In Taitou, a village in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, middle-aged and sometimes gray-haired volunteers are everywhere.
Langfang city in Hebei province was put under lockdown on Tuesday with major transport to places outside the city suspended, after it detected a confirmed local COVID-19 case on Monday, Xu Jianpei, vice-governor of Hebei, said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Zhang Zhongde and his colleague Zou Xu left Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on a train bound for faraway Hebei province on Tuesday. Their aim was to help Hebei fight the coronavirus outbreak using traditional Chinese medicine.
Langfang , which neighbors Beijing in the capital's south, started a citywide round of nucleic acid testing on Tuesday after its Gu'an county reported a confirmed case earlier in the day, the first reported in the city since the Hebei outbreak began last week.
Authorities in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Monday shifted more than 20,000 villagers in the city's Zengcun township to isolation sites by chartered buses, as part of an effort to rein in the COVID-19 outbreak in the provincial capital.
Hebei province reported 40 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 26 asymptomatic carriers on Tuesday morning, with one confirmed from Langfang city which neighbors Beijing.
After purchasing loads of fruit and vegetables from a wholesale market, Liu Xueqing hopped on his truck and started to drive toward communities in Chang'an district, Shijiazhuang, the capital city in Hebei province that has been hit heavily by COVID-19 for over a week.
Automated equipment is playing a critical role in government efforts to carry out mass testing campaigns in a bid to pinpoint COVID-19 infections for isolation and treatment faster and more accurately.
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, can be contained within a month, if not sooner, a renowned epidemiologist in Shanghai said on Monday.
The current pandemic situation in Shijiazhuang, a city in Hebei province, shows obvious characteristics of disease clusters, and is expected to come under control within weeks, said a leading expert in Shanghai.
Shijiazhuang resumes deliveries to help homebound residents
Experts estimate that patient zero, the first patient in the Hebei province coronavirus outbreak recently, would have been infected before Dec 15, based on gene sequencing and an epidemiological survey.
By 10 am on Friday, Hebei province has confirmed 127 COVID-19 cases and detected 183 asymptomatic carriers since the outbreak occurred on Jan 2.
Cross-city commuters between Beijing and neighboring cities in Hebei province, the epicenter of the nation's new cluster of COVID-19 cases, found it would take around half a day to go to work on early Friday morning since the authority started to require several documents and nucleic acid test results to enter the capital via the expressway.
Hebei province reported 33 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 39 asymptomatic carriers on Friday, down from a single-day's increase of 51 confirmed patients and 69 asymptomatic cases on Thursday, according to the Health Commission of Hebei.
Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, has been put under a lockdown after the city reported the highest daily COVID-19 case numbers since the outbreak occurred over the past weekend.
The COVID-19 outbreak in Hebei province is still developing and the situation is serious, experts said, calling for more decisive and strict measures to contain the virus.
Vehicles are not allowed to enter or exit all areas administrated by Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, except for those transporting materials or necessities for the city's fight against the current COVID-19 outbreak, according to a notice released on Thursday by the city's anti-virus working group.
Shijiazhuang in Hebei province has suspended more major transport links with outside places to lower infection risks as the city reported the biggest rise in daily COVID-19 cases since the new outbreak occurred at the weekend.
Hebei province reported 51 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 69 asymptomatic carriers on Thursday, all locally transmitted, bringing its total of recently confirmed cases to 90 and local asymptomatic carriers to 144, according to the Health Commission of Hebei.
