Fears As New COVID-19 Outbreak Ravages Chinese Region [VIDEO]

Fears of a possible new outbreak in a Chinese region of over 100 million residents have been fuelled after two cities from the area went under Wuhan-style lockdown. 

Officials from Jilin province of north-eastern China appointed two hospitals today as designated coronavirus facilities to deal with the overwhelming spike of suspected COVID-19 patients.

Chinese officials have imposed strict quarantine measures on two cities in the province of Jilin amid fears of a local infection cluster continuing to spread and threaten neighbouring areas.

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Authorities from Shulan, a city of 700,000 people located in Jilin province, said that they will ‘severely punish’ the residents who break lockdown rules.

A video released by The Beijing News has shown hazmat-clad health workers giving coronavirus testing to local residents in Jilin province as part of the mass-screening carried out by the local government.

More than 40,000 residents in the cities of Jilin and Shulan have received nucleic acid tests as the authorities scramble to prevent a second wave of the outbreak.

The city of Jilin in Jilin province of 4.5 million residents, has sealed off one of its districts this week after changing the area’s emergency level to ‘high-risk’.

It comes as a cluster of infections that emerged in Shulan earlier this month continues to spread and threaten the Dongbei region in north-eastern China of 108 million citizens.

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The Dongbei area is a geographical region corresponding specifically to the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang.

The province of Jilin reported five new infections today, bringing the total of confirmed cases related to the cluster to 39.