Mainland China sees rise in new coronavirus cases


A man is looking at his neigbourhood while a city hall worker is cleaning the streets near a residential area in Wuhan, Hubei, on Sunday (April 5). Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travellers from abroad as well as local transmissions increased, highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the outbreak. - Reuters

BEIJING: Mainland China reported 30 new Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases on Saturday, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travellers from abroad as well as local transmissions increased, highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the outbreak.

The National Health Commission said in a statement on Sunday (April 5) that 25 of the latest cases involved people who had entered from abroad, compared with 18 such cases a day earlier. Five new locally transmitted infections were also reported on Saturday, all in the southern coastal province of Guangdong, up from a day earlier.

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