Amid rising cases of COVID-19, another city in China imposed lockdown, and suspended classes and public transport.
Authorities in Yuzhou, a city of Henan, announced the new rules on Sunday night as “two asymptomatic infections were detected.”
This comes as the latest hotspot of the coronavirus, Xian, capital of Shaanxi province, reported less than 100 cases after nearly a week.
The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 108 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.
Of the new local cases, 95 were reported in Shaanxi, eight were reported in Zhejiang, and five in Henan, the commission said.
Also reported were 67 new imported cases in 12 provincial-level regions, according to the commission.
Three new suspected cases arriving from outside the mainland were reported in Shanghai, and no new deaths from COVID-19 were reported on the day, it added.