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Locked-Down City’s Police Launch Probe Into Disease Exposure by ‘Patient Zero’ A medical worker verifies a resident’s personal information in Tonghua, Northeast China’s Jilin province. Police in the northeastern Chinese city that suffered food shortages during its Covid-19 lockdown have opened an investigation into whether the “patient zero” of the latest outbreak violated any infectious disease prevention rules. The procuratorate of Tonghua, Jilin province, identified the patient as a man with an asymptomatic Covid-19 infection surnamed Lin who was hired by a local company on J...

Millions in China’s Tonghua City Stuck Indoors as Food Supplies Run Out After the sudden lockdown of Tonghua city in China’s northeastern Jilin Province, food supplies have become a major problem for its 2.3 million residents. Due to the local government’s extreme COVID-19 lockdown measures, many residents confined to their homes are running out of food. Currently, all the food supplies are distributed and delivered to households by community volunteers. The Epoch Times spoke with some of these volunteers who revealed what the situation was like inside the locked-down city. Tonghua has ...

The city of Tonghua in northeast China, where a cluster of COVID-19 cases has appeared, has finished its third citywide nucleic acid testing campaign, during which 10 asymptomatic infections were found, according to local authorities at a press briefing on Wednesday. A total of 361,927 people have been tested, and results for 252,879 people are available, said Jiang Haiyan, vice mayor of Tonghua in Jilin Province. Jiang said that a total of 2,750 close contacts and 3,779 secondary close contacts have been located and placed under centralized isolation. By Tuesday, the city had reported 279 lo...

‘Wartime Mode’: Inside China’s Current Virus Hotspots China is seeing its worst CCP virus resurgence in months as the Lunar New Year approaches. During the annual holiday, tens of millions travel across the country, crowding buses, trains, and planes, to reunite with their families. But this year, dozens of Chinese provinces and cities are urging against “unnecessary trips,” telling people to stay where they are while imposing quarantine measures to contain the virus. At daily virus press briefings, officials have spread theories about imported cases seeding local outbreaks and peop...

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