China city in partial lockdown over ‘major risk’ of virus spread
Police officers clad in protective suits stand guard outside the railway station in China's Jilin province, today. The northeastern Chinese city has partially shut its borders and cut off transport links after the emergence of a local coronavirus cluster that has fuelled growing fears of a second wave of infections in China. – AFP pic, May 13, 2020.
A NORTHEASTERN Chinese city has partially shut its borders, cut off transport links and closed schools after the emergence of a local coronavirus cluster that has fuelled fears about a second wave of infections in China. Jilin, with a population of more than four million, suspended bus services today and said it will only allow residents to leave the city if they have tested negative for Covid-19 in the past 48 hours and complete an unspecified period of “strict self-isolation”.
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