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After seven consecutive days of zero reports of locally transmitted COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland, one such confirmed case was reported in Hebei province on Sunday, the National Health Commission said on Monday.
Shijiazhuang Railway Station finally returned to bustling normality on Monday after seeing no passenger departures for 34 days due to a COVID-19 outbreak that struck Hebei's provincial capital this year.
Starting on Monday, Gaocheng district in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province, where this year's COVID-19 epidemic in the province started, will become a medium-risk area for coronavirus infection, according to information released at a news conference on Sunday afternoon.
Everyday heroes have made their own contributions in the fight against COVID-19 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, helping the city recover from the disease in the past month.
As Shijiazhuang was hit by a recent outbreak, fever clinics' roles in contagion intervention have come to the fore.
"Clouds cannot block the sunshine for good," reads a message on a building facade facing my window. The pinkish-white characters are set against an amaranth background, like peach petals resting atop a meadow ablaze with violets. "Spring buds prevail when harsh winter ends."
The northern Chinese city of Shijiazhuang, hit hard by the latest resurgence in COVID-19 cases, began to resume public transportation services on Saturday after new infections showed signs of subsiding.
Authorities in Shijiazhuang, Hebei's provincial capital, have rolled out a series of citywide nucleic acid testing campaigns following a spike in COVID-19 cases this month.
Shijiazhuang in North China’s Hebei province identified four new local confirmed cases by midday on Tuesday, all of whom had been in centralized quarantine before testing positive, city Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said Tuesday afternoon during a daily news conference.
Hebei province has stepped up efforts to prevent infections at designated hospitals for treating COVID-19 patients and centralized quarantine centers, as the province's daily counts of new cases continues to decline.
Two medical teams, consisting of 162 people dispatched from Henan province and Tianjin municipality to aid the virus-hit city of Shijiazhuang in Hebei province, have finished their tasks and left for home on Sunday.
Five communities and villages in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, were designated as low risk for virus infections on Monday, while one village in the city's Pingshan county became medium risk after two confirmed COVID-19 cases were detected earlier.
When Zhang Hongchun arrived in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Jan 12, the streets were eerily empty amid a sweeping stay-at-home order due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Hebei province detected 19 new local confirmed COVID-19 cases and an asymptomatic carrier on Saturday, Hebei Health Commission said on Sunday morning.
Shijiazhuang in Hebei province detected 30 positive results for coronavirus from its third round of nucleic acid testing for its over 10.25 million residents, 25 of whom were already in centralized quarantine centers before testing positive, the city's vice-mayor Meng Xianghong said on Friday night during a news conference.
North China's Hebei province detected 18 new local confirmed COVID-19 cases and three asymptomatic carriers on Thursday, the fourth day of the number staying below 50, said the Hebei Health Commission.
The central government has strengthened COVID-19 prevention work for next month's Spring Festival, with management of rural areas given more importance due to recent outbreaks in the countryside.
Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, has put 34,029 people at higher risk of infection in 458 centralized quarantine centers across the city, in order to cut down further spread of the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, the city's vice mayor Meng Xianghong said on Thursday afternoon during a news conference.
As part of a citywide lockdown to curb a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, the Shijiazhuang Foreign Language School has been sealed off to visitors since Jan 6.
The current epidemic in Hebei province appears to be under control, as new COVID-19 cases for the day were found in places like centralized quarantine centers and closed-off villages or communities, the province's top officials said at a meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control on Wednesday night.
Responding to the recent sporadic COVID-19 outbreaks in China, the emergency department of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing has taken stricter measures, including disinfection, wearing masks and protective suits, temperature check for every patient and epidemiological survey, to prevent nosocomial infections.
Pingdu, a county-level city in Qingdao, Shandong province, reported a confirmed COVID-19 case and another asymptomatic case on Wednesday, the local health authority said.
Eighteen-year-old Ren Jinhao raced across a basketball court before making a shot cheered by his teammates.
North China's Hebei province has seen a decrease in its single-day rise of confirmed COVID-19 patients in the past four days, with its current caseload of confirmed cases being 818 and asymptomatic carriers at 168.
Many supermarkets and shopping centers have made efforts to mobilize resources to ensure the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables after the recent coronavirus outbreak.
Hebei reported 19 new local COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the first instance of less than 20 in 10 days.
Fever clinics in Hebei operate under strict regulations
Shijiazhuang, capital of North China's Hebei province, reported 14 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases in the first half of Monday.
Construction workers are striving to complete a new centralized quarantine facility in Zhengding county, Shijiazhuang of Hebei province, to help the city fight the recent COVID-19 resurgence.
A line of ambulances was waiting when an 18-wheeler pulled into a logistics park in the city of Shijiazhuang in North China's Hebei province – a recent novel coronavirus hot spot – at about 1:30 pm on Sunday.
Shijiazhuang, capital of North China's Hebei Province, found 247 residents positive for the novel coronavirus in its second round of citywide nucleic acid testing, authorities said Saturday.
Construction worker Zhang Zhenshu squinted his eyes as he fumbled on his phone for a digital health app at a railway station in Shijiazhuang, North China's Hebei province.
Screening efforts to discover residents infected with the novel coronavirus in North China's Hebei province have played an active role in curbing the epidemic, as most new detected positive results were from centralized quarantine centers, a top official said on Saturday afternoon during a news conference.
Construction of the first batch of 1,500 rooms for centralized medical observation has been completed in five days in a city in north China's Hebei Province, local authorities said Saturday.
Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, the worst-hit city by coronavirus this winter in the Chinese mainland, has put over 27,000 people at higher risk of infection - close contacts of confirmed cases and secondary close contacts - in 434 centralized quarantine centers citywide, said Meng Xianghong, the city's vice mayor, during a news conference Friday night.
Hebei province reported 90 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and nine asymptomatic carriers, all locally transmitted, increasing its caseload to 553 and asymptomatic carriers still under medical observation to 195, according to the Health Commission of Hebei on Friday.
Shijiazhuang in Hebei province has in recent days stepped up its fight against a COVID-19 outbreak.
Hebei province has seen its first 12 coronavirus patients discharged from the hospital on Thursday afternoon. They are the province's first recoveries in this year's outbreak amid a continued uptick in cases.
About 3,000 quarantine rooms are being built in Shijiazhuang's Zhengding county in Hebei province, as the province has seen a recent increase in coronavirus infections.
Twelve novel coronavirus patients were discharged from a hospital in Hebei province on Thursday, according to China Central Television, the first recoveries since the province began detecting infections on Jan 2.
