Another region in China raises COVID-19 risk level after local infection

The Sujiatun District in Shenyang City, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, raised its risk level for COVID-19 from low to medium following the detection of one new locally transmitted case, according to provincial authorities.

The local infection was officially confirmed on Sunday after the 23-year-old patient was admitted into hospital on May 8 with a fever, according to the provincial health department.

He had traveled to neighboring Jilin Province, where over a dozen cluster cases have been detected since last week.

Other places including Dongxihu District in Wuhan City, Hubei Province and Fengman District in Jilin City, Jilin Province have also raised risk alert from low to medium because of local infections.

Liaoning Province later announced all arrivals from Jilin Province will be quarantined for 14 days and mandatory nucleic acid tests will be conducted. 

Especially, people from Jilin's Shulan City into the province will be put in centralized isolation and tested twice while people from other parts of the province only need to conduct home isolation and will be tested once.