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School linked to new China COVID outbreak
A new surge of COVID-19 detected in China has has been linked to a primary school in Fujian province
Initial reports suggest that the COVID outbreak could have started from a student’s father, who tested positive last week.
Authorities in Fujian have now ordered that all teachers and students receive a COVID test within a week, following more than 100 cases detected in four days.
The latest wave comes a month after China contained the Nanjing outbreak – it’s biggest since Wuhan.
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on May 14, 2020. – Nervous residents of China’s pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus on May 14 after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
The city of Putian in Fujian province – home to about three million residents – appears to be among one of the hardest-hit places
The first cases there have been linked to a primary school.
Reports also continue to state that the suspected source of the outbreak is a student’s father who tested positive for the virus on 10 September – 38 days after returning from Singapore on 4 August.
He had served 21 days in quarantine, during which he had taken nine nucleic acid and serologic tests, all of which were negative, said a report in the state-run Global Times newspaper.
It is not clear if the student’s father was indeed infected overseas, as such a long development period is very unusual.
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