Medics give COVID-19 tests to residents at a test site in Heihe, Heilongjiang Province on December 30, 2020. Photo:VCG
At least two people have been punished for deliberately concealing the travel history of COVID-19 confirmed cases or asymptomatic patients during the recent outbreaks in different cities in China.
A resident in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has been given an administrative penalty for hiding the whereabouts of a close contact of one reported COVID-19 asymptomatic patient amid the fresh outbreak in Wangkui county, according to a local police announcement on Tuesday.
County in NE China’s Heilongjiang in lockdown after identifying 26 asymptomatic cases and over 1,000 close contacts