China reported one new
coronavirus case and 15 asymptomatic infections, a day after a fresh COVID-19
cluster emerged in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. China's National
Health Commission on Tuesday said one imported case was recorded in the Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region on Monday while no local infections were
reported.
Chinese experts are
reassuring the public over concerns regarding a potential second wave of the
epidemic, after clustered infections of COVID-19 have re-emerged in two
provinces, state-run Global Times reported on Tuesday.
The experts called such
sporadic cases as normal for major infectious diseases. Despite the increasing
number of new infection cases, Chinese medical experts said that clustered
infections in Wuhan, Hubei Province and Shulan, Jilin Province are sporadic and
don't imply a second wave is looming.
After the clustered
infections emerged, officials from both Jilin and Hubei provinces are ramping
up efforts to trace close contacts while adopting lockdown measures to contain
the infection from spreading to wider regions, the report said. Since Sunday,
Wuhan has reported a total of six new cases of COVID-19, all of which are from
the same local community.
The death toll from
coronavirus in China remains at 4,633 with fatalities last reported on Monday,
while the total number of cases increased to 82,919, including 115 patients
still undergoing treatment in hospital. -- PTI