Chinese city on Myanmar border orders home quarantine, COVID-19 tests
Reuters
March 31, 2021 11:19 MYT
March 31, 2021 11:19 MYT
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.