Residents of Chinese border city near Myanmar test negative after coronavirus cases


Medical workers check information as they prepare COVID-19 coronavirus testing for residents in Ruili in China's southwestern Yunnan province. China has locked down a city on the border with Myanmar and will launch a mass coronavirus testing programme, officials said on Sept 15, after a handful of infections were detected there. All test turned out negative on Tuesday (Sept 22). - AFP

HONG KONG, Sept 22 (Reuters): Residents in a Chinese border city have all tested negative for coronavirus following two imported infections from neighbouring Myanmar, and the city-wide home quarantine would be lifted, the provincial government said on Monday (Sept 21).

The transit point of Ruili in southwestern Yunnan province launched the tests for tens of thousands of residents last week.

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