Tianjin urges residents to act with caution to avoid COVID-19

A medical worker pours hot water provided by volunteers to warm hands during epidemic screening work in Tianjin on Friday. JIA CHENGLONG/FOR CHINA DAILY

In Anyang, news of 58 confirmed cases published on Friday shows that 53 were students and teachers from the Yucai School in Tangyin county. Anyang reported the first two cases of the recent outbreak on Sunday, among them a student from the school.

In Shanghai municipality, travel agencies have been required to suspend cross-provincial tours and bookings of hotels and air tickets, according to a statement released by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism on Friday.

The statement came after five local infections were reported in the eastern metropolis on Thursday.

Cross-provincial tours and booking services will resume when local medium-risk areas are cleared, the statement said.

In Zhuhai, Guangdong province, seven positive cases were detected during a mass nucleic acid testing campaign on Friday and preliminary gene sequencing indicated they were infected by the Omicron strain, Zhang Chen, vice-mayor of Zhuhai, said on Friday night.

The southern metropolis immediately launched the city-wide nucleic acid testing campaign when a local resident tested positive in Zhongshan city's Tanzhou township on Thursday morning.

Cao Chen in Shanghai contributed to this story.