Coronavirus: China traces path of infected tourists and closes popular sites to contain new outbreak


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China’s “zero Covid-19” status was broken days after the last outbreaks tapered off, with a new outbreak involving eight people emerging over the weekend. A couple of retired university professors from Shanghai tested positive in the tourist city of Xian in Shaanxi province late on Friday. Later their travel companions – two couples from Shanghai and the southern city of Haikou and another man from Shanghai, all senior citizens in their 60s – returned positive tests on Sunday and were treated in Xian. Their close contact in Yinchuan city from Ningxia Hui autonomous region – whose age and gender was...