Residents of Chinese border city near Myanmar test negative after coronavirus cases

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A medical worker in protective suit collects a swab sample from a woman in Ruili, Dehong prefecture, Yunnan province, China September 15, 2020. — Reuters pic HONG KONG, Sept 21 — Residents in a Chinese border city have all tested negative for coronavirus following two imported infections from neighbouring Myanmar, and the city-wide home quarantine would be lifted, the provincial government said today. The transit point of Ruili in southwestern Yunnan province launched the tests for tens of thousands of residents last week. “Apart from the two imported cases, no local cases nor local transmission of the virus were found,”...