Chinese city on Myanmar border orders home quarantine, COVID-19 tests

Reuters

31/03/2021

03:19 MYT

Chinese city on Myanmar border orders home quarantine, COVID-19 tests

Medical workers in protective suits attend to people lining up for nucleic acid testing at a residential compound, following imported COVID-19 infections from neighbouring Myanmar, in the border city of Ruili, Yunnan province, China. Filepic/REUTERS

BEIJING: The southwestern Chinese city of Ruili that borders Myanmar ordered on Wednesday a one-week home quarantine for residents of the city's urban area due to new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases there.

Ruili also ordered a mass COVID-19 testing drive for all in urban area and will severely crack down on illegal border crossings, according to a statement from the city government published by the Communist Party authorities of Yunnan province. Ruili is located in Yunnan.