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The latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Hebei province, northern China, saw daily affairs rise above the 100 mark Monday for the first time in at least five months.
China’s National Health Commission said in a statement that 103 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours, with 82 in Hebei.
Several medical teams from other areas went to Hebei to help the health care system there and stop the spread of the virus that was first reported in Wuhan city in December 2019 and since then it has spread all over the world.
The cities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai in Hebei have reported COVID-19 incidents for the past two weeks as infection numbers rise.
Local authorities have implemented de facto locks to fight the virus. Traffic to and from the affected areas has been limited, while local railways have canceled trains.
Just north of Hebei, the capital Beijing has also tightened measures to prevent the spread of the virus, including highway closures.
Meanwhile, Chinese authorities have also detained two people for five days in central Henan province for allegedly “leaking epidemiological study information of COVID-19 binders,” Chinese Daily Times reported daily.
China has reported 87,536 cases of COVID-19, including 4,634 deaths since the start of the revolution.
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