Tag: Putian city

China Isolates Children to Control New COVID-19 Outbreak

A city in southeast China is responding to its latest COVID-19 outbreak by quarantining the infected individuals and their close contacts, including children under 12 years old. Medical staff and parents alike have shared stories of grief and videos of their unaccompanied children in hospitals. A four-year-old boy in a full white hazmat suit with a…


COVID-19 Infection Rise in Southeastern China Prompts New Mass Testing

Hundreds of thousands of residents in a county of Fujian Province on China’s southeastern coast received orders to undergo nucleic acid testing as a fresh COVID-19 outbreak hit the region. Fujian Province reported at least 102 new infections within three days, with 64 in Xinyou county, according to statements released by local authorities on Sept. 14….