Covid: China places 20,000 inhabitants in forced quarantine

Argentina passes Brazil as the country with the most... Most of the new cases are recorded in Hebei (north), the province that surrounds Beijing and where 22 million people are already subject to some form of containment. This small epidemic resurgence seems to be the result of the virus circulating in the rural areas of some large cities, in particular Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital and epicenter of the new outbreak. More than 20,000 inhabitants of surrounding villages have been placed in quarantine in establishments planned by the authorities, said public television CCTV. "It is natural that they are anxious and…