A village in Shijiazhuang, N China's Hebei, has raised its COVID-19 emergency response level to high-risk. Hebei province reported fourteen new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 30 asymptomatic results, all locally transmitted, the provincial health commission said.
On Monday, the province reported four confirmed cases. Two of them are villagers from Gaocheng district, Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei. Both of them, in their 50s, didn't leave their villages for most of the past week until their symptoms worsened and they went to local clinics.
The other two are brothers in their 30s from Nangong of the city of Xingtai, who both visited hospitals several days before they tested positive. The wife of the elder brother is an asymptomatic carrier.
To contain the risk of spread, all villages and communities where the four patients live became medium-risk areas starting on Monday.
For targeted intervention, the county-level city of Nangong has started nucleic acid tests for all of its around 500,000 residents. "Don't go out of or into the city if not necessary," the city's anti-virus unit said.
Hospitals in Shijiazhuang have tightened measures for COVID-19 prevention and control. All newly admitted patients and any caregivers should have two negative nucleic acid test results before entering wards, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University said on Monday.
