Shanghai to quarantine all who arrive from mid to high-risk COVID-19 areas in China

Shanghai will quarantine all people coming to the city from mid to high-risk COVID-19 areas in the country for 14 days, a city official said on Tuesday amid concerns about a resurgence of the disease following a cluster outbreak in Beijing.

Wu Jinglei, director of Shanghai's health commission, told reporters during a briefing that individuals coming into the city from high-risk areas will be placed under centralized quarantine.

Shanghai has reported a total of 341 confirmed domestic COVID-19 cases with seven deaths since the start of the outbreak. In addition, the city also reported 354 cases imported from abroad.

Shanghai sampled 87 markets related to imported fresh food in 16 districts on Saturday. A total of 1,205 samples were collected, including 867 samples of external environment, surface and water samples, and 338 samples of imported food, and nucleic acid tests have all been negative.