Beijing has reported one COVID-19 case in the city's southeastern district of Tongzhou on Sunday, two weeks after the Chinese capital was cleared of all locally transmitted cases. The new infection was imported from Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, which suffered a new wave of cases in recent days.
The patient is a student at an art studio in Tongzhou district, local health officials announced on Sunday. The student arrived in Beijing from Xi'an on Tuesday and had already received nucleic acid test before entering the city, the studio later announced.
However, it has not been clarified whether the positive result came from the test was taken before or after entering Beijing.
The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 37 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.
Of the new local cases, 24 were reported in Shaanxi, 10 in Zhejiang, two in Guangdong, and one in Beijing, the commission said.
Also reported were 65 new imported cases in 14 provincial-level regions, according to the commission.
