7 of the new cases involve Chinese nationals who had travelled from Italy. FMTNews China
A woman and her children, wearing masks, arrive from a flight from Wuhan, China.
The financial hub of Shanghai will also require all people, regardless of nationality, to remain in quarantine for 14 days if they have travelled to the city from a country with “relatively serious virus conditions”, an official said. It added that travelling was the easiest way for cross-infections to happen, describing staying home as the “best form of protection”.
Mainland China had 125 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on Monday, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday, down from 202 cases a day earlier and the lowest since the authority started publishing nationwide data in January. The seven people had close contact with a previously disclosed case and all eight worked together in a restaurant in Bergamo, a city in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, the Qingtian government said in a statement on its WeChat account.
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