SHENYANG, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) – A new confirmed case of locally transmitted COVID-19 has been reported in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province, the municipal prevention and control center said on Friday. of the COVID-19 epidemic.
The new patient, a 16-year-old student, is the granddaughter of the patient who returned from the Republic of Korea on November 29 and tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday after completing her two-week medical isolation period . The student had close contact with her grandmother whose nucleic acid and serum antibody tests were negative during her quarantine.
The student’s nucleic acid test result was negative on December 22, but it came back positive two days later. She was transferred to a designated hospital for medical treatment.
Two communities in Shenyang were reclassified on Thursday as areas at medium risk for COVID-19.
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