The Chinese city of Jilin is moving to lockdown a specific area within it due to worries of a prospective outbreak of coronavirus, while European leaders alert a vaccine may not be upcoming.
This story will be updated throughout Monday.
Monday’s key minutes:
- Chinese city fears outbreak
- Boris Johnson warns a vaccine may not occur
- Spain records lowest daily death toll in months
- Thai residents rush back to stores
- Noma restaurant becomes a hamburger bar
- India extends long lockdown
- Russia seeks to bring professional athletes back
Locally sent cases in high-risk Chinese city
Mainland China reported 5 new confirmed COVID-19 cases for Might 16, below eight the previous day, the National Health Commission (NHC) stated in a statement on Sunday.
Two of the five confirmed cases were so-called imported infections, while 3 were locally sent in the north-eastern Chinese city of Jilin.
The three domestically-transmitted cases belong to a district in Jilin city called Fengman, which has been categorized by Chinese authorities as a high-risk location for COVID-19
Heightened disease control measures in the district consist of permitting only one person from a family to go out and purchase day-to-day requirements every day, according to the district’s official post on WeChat.
Citizens were advised not to leave the city and any who do require to leave need to provide a negative test result taken within the previous 48 hours.
Jilin is the second biggest city of Jilin province, which borders North Korea and Russia. It momentarily suspended traveler train services last Wednesday.
Fengman district stated in a Wechat post on Sunday that it will tighten the lockdown by closing shops consisting of outlet store, home appliance shops and furniture stores but will keep grocery stores available to maintain supply to locals.
In the city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus break out came from China, carried out 222,675 voluntary nucleic acid tests on May 16, the regional health authority said on Sunday, almost doubling from a day earlier.
Wuhan began a campaign on Might 14 to look for asymptomatic providers– individuals who are contaminated however reveal no outside indication of disease– in its population of 11 million homeowners, after validating last weekend its very first cluster of COVID-19 infections considering that its release from a virtual lockdown on April 8.
The variety of confirmed cases in the mainland now stands at 82,947 and the death toll at 4,634 China does not include people who have actually been tested and found to be asymptomatic providers in its tally of validated cases.
There may never be a vaccine for COVID-19: Boris Johnson
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there might never be a vaccine for COVID-19 despite the substantial global effort to establish one.
The British Government is giving 93 million pounds ($1755 million) in funding to speed up the opening of the brand-new Vaccine Manufacturing and Development Centre.
Mr Johnson said Britain is likewise supporting research study into drug treatments to help people recover quickly from the virus.
Mr Johnson composed in the Mail on S