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China’s new Covid-19 cluster in Dalian linked to cases in 9 other cities

  • Beijing among those to find an infection connected to the northeastern port, where 44 cases have been confirmed since last Wednesday
  • Fuzhou, in the southeast, tests nearly 1,500 people after a man arriving from Dalian is diagnosed

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People queue to give samples in Dalian, which is testing its entire six million population for Covid-19. Photo: EPA-EFE
At least nine Chinese cities have reported Covid-19 cases linked to the northeastern city of Dalian after a new cluster emerged there within the past week.
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The port city’s health authority has confirmed 44 new infections of the disease caused by the coronavirus since last Wednesday.

Other cities in Dalian’s province of Liaoning, along with cities in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces in the northeast and Fujian in the southeast, have between them discovered at least eight asymptomatic cases traced back to Dalian, mainland Chinese media reported.

And Beijing on Tuesday confirmed its first new infection in more than three weeks, which the capital’s health commission said was found to be linked to Dalian.

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China to test six million residents in port city of Dalian after new coronavirus cluster emerges

China to test six million residents in port city of Dalian after new coronavirus cluster emerges
Nearly 3 million people in Dalian have been tested for the virus since Sunday, while contact tracing has been stepped up and some public bus routes have stopped running, the local authorities said.
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