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.

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.