Jiangsu Province is seeing another COVID-19 hot spot. Yangzhou, about 100 kilometers from the provincial capital Nanjing, reported 40 new cases on Monday, almost doubling its tally since July 28th in one day.
The local government is rolling out the tried-and-tested measures to curb this increase in infections: more testing, traffic control and shuttering non-essential businesses.
On Tuesday, all of Jiangsu's 45,371 chess rooms and mahjong parlors were closed. Nineteen previously approved large-scale events scheduled for August have also been canceled or postponed. Entertainment venues and offline training institutions paused their businesses as well.
Nobody is allowed to enter or leave Yangzhou unless they can provide a negative nucleic acid test result within 48 hours.
A 64-year-old woman, surnamed Mao, has been detained by police for allegedly obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases on July 29, Yangzhou Police reported on Tuesday.
The police found that, without permission, Mao left Nanjing's Lukou Subdistrict, sealed off to control the spread of COVID-19, to go to Yangzhou on the morning of July 21.
She then stayed in her sister's home at Niansi New Village in Yangzhou's Hanjiang District.
Mao didn't report the history of her stay in Nanjing to the community after arriving in Yangzhou and frequently went to crowded places, resulting in the spread of COVID-19 epidemic in urban Yangzhou.
On July 27, Mao went to Yangzhou Friendliness Hospital to report a cough and fever. Her nucleic acid test results were positive.
When police first investigated Mao, she refused to reveal the places she had visited in Yangzhou and refused to implement prevention and control measures.
She has been detained by police for allegedly obstructing the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and the case is under further investigation.