Shijiazhuang, the capital of China’s Hebei province, has become a hotspot for the Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic in the country. After 44 new confirmed cases in Shijiazhuang yesterday, 40 local cases were detected again this morning.
According to Chinese media reports, the authorities of Hebei Province held a press conference on epidemic prevention at 3 p.m. this afternoon (10), revealing that 40 new local cases were confirmed in Shijiazhuang between 00:00 and 10:00 a.m. today, 26 of which were asymptomatic infected persons who were transferred to the confirmed case, and 6 new local asymptomatic infected persons.
Authorities in Hebei province admitted at a press conference that the outbreak has not yet seen a clear inflection point and that the risk of spread still exists, estimating that case zero of the Shijiazhuang outbreak may have appeared before December 15 last year.
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