China's Harbin adds more risk areas as COVID-19 cases rise
HARBIN - Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, has designated five more neighborhoods as medium-risk areas for COVID-19 starting Sunday noon.
The city's anti-epidemic headquarters on Saturday evening added three medium-risk areas starting Sunday. Harbin currently has more than 20 medium-risk areas across the city.
The provincial health committee reported 10 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on Saturday, all in Harbin. The province has a total of 29 local cases and one asymptomatic carrier, according to the committee.
The city's education bureau on Sunday announced that primary and secondary schools, including secondary vocational schools, and off-campus training institutions in the districts that involve risk areas will continue to carry out online lessons until further notice.
- Vice-premier urges all-out efforts to search for people missing after Gansu mountain torrents
- Zhejiang transforms once-polluted land into industrial park
- China activates Level-IV emergency response for flood control in 5 provincial-level regions
- Flash floods leave 15 dead, 28 missing in Gansu
- Foshan succeeds in curbing the spread of chikungunya
- Death toll in mountain torrents in NW China's Gansu rises to 13
