China Officially Reports COVID-19 Outbreak Has Spread to Southern Coastal Province Guangdong

This photo shows taxi drivers queueing to receive nucleic acid testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Guangzhou in China's southern Guangdong province. - Companies, schools and individuals across China are lining up to be tested for the virus as the country rises back to normal life after largely taming the epidemic. April 20, 2020. Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images

China has released official reports confirming that its latest outbreak of COVID-19 has spread to a third province, following months of reports of new cases of COVID-19 within the country. On May 21, a case was reported in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of China’s southern coastal province Guangdong, causing the closure and lockdown of a youth center and a university. More cases have reportedly occurred in Yingkou of the Liaoning Province, triggering the northeastern city to raise its emergency response level to three.

Guangzhou authorities announced at a press conference that a 75-year-old female patient went to the fever clinic of Liwan District Central Hospital on May 20 and tested positive for COVID-19.