China seeks to contain 'silent carriers' of new coronavirus

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CORONAVIRUS | Cases must be reported within two hours, and close contacts must be traced within a day.

| China took new measures on Wednesday to try to prevent asymptomatic "silent carriers" of the new coronavirus from causing a second wave of infections, as the country reported another modest rise in confirmed cases.

China is also increasingly focused on managing asymptomatic virus carriers. It only began announcing figures for such cases on April 1, reporting 657 new asymptomatic cases so far this month, of which 57 have developed symptoms. Zhang Dingyu, president of Jinyintan Hospital in the central city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the outbreak that began this week allowing people to leave after a more-than two-month lockdown, said he was not worried about a big second wave of infections given the containment measures in place.

"This virus could be dead already, and has just left behind some of its debris in the cells," Zhang said. Under the regulations, medical institutions must report the detection of asymptomatic cases within two hours of their discovery. Local governments must then identify all known close contacts of the case within 24 hours.

However, in an easing measure, the commercial centre of Shanghai said it would begin reopening some schools from April 27.Of the 61 new confirmed cases arriving from overseas, 40 were in China's northeast Heilongjiang province, which shares a border with Russia. All were among returning Chinese nationals, state news agency Xinhua said.

 

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