Beijing reports one new COVID-19 case – China

BEIJING, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) — Beijing reported one new confirmed COVID-19 case from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, local health authorities announced at a press briefing. The new case, a 48-year-old woman, was a close contact of an imported COVID-19 case reported on Monday, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of Beijing’s center for disease control and prevention, told reporters. Forty-three close contacts of the new case have been initially traced. The woman, a native of north China’s Hebei Province, lived in the same hotel in Chaoyang District as the imported COVID-19 case. She was put under isolated medical observation…