Several waves of new COVID-19 outbreaks have recently occurred in different regions throughout China. Following Dalian city in Liaoning Province, the provincial capital Shenyang announced on Dec. 23 that the city has entered “wartime” status in order to make preparations for curbing the transmission of the CCP virus.
According to a report by Taiwan’s government-run Central News Agency (CNA), local officials in Shenyang issued a notice, stating that a resident who returned home from South Korea tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 22, after finishing the ten days quarantine. The 67-year-old female patient is currently being treated at Shenyang’s Sixth People’s Hospital. Local authorities have started the contact tracing process, and so far, they identified 71 close contacts and 69 secondary close contacts. The authorities also announced that the city has entered “wartime” status as of Dec. 23 and began implementing epidemic control measures.
