China reported 108 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily total since March 5, the country’s National Health Commission said Monday.
While those numbers are still far short of the daily totals that were reported during the height of the country’s epidemic in February, the uptick is heightening fears of a second wave of infection that could once again push the country into a state of near-total lockdown.
Notably, all but 10 of the new cases involved people who entered mainland China from abroad. Nearly half were reported in Heilongjiang province, which borders Russia.
On Sunday, officials in the border city of Suifenhe announced that anyone coming from abroad would be required to spend 28 days in quarantine and undergo nucleic acid and antibody tests, Reuters reported. Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang, plans to introduce similarly stringent measures and will also mandate 14-day lockdowns for any residential units where coronavirus cases are detected.
China also reported 61 new asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Sunday, a decrease from 63 a day earlier.
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