COVID-19: Chinese city of Shenzhen goes into lockdown after surge in Hong Kong coronavirus cases
cases on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, more than triple the previous day's total.and families told to stay at home.China, where the first coronavirus cases were detected in late 2019 in the central city of Wuhan, has reported a total of 4,636 deaths on the mainland out of 115,466 confirmed cases since the pandemic started.
"People should not get the wrong impression that the virus situation is now under control," Dr Albert Au, an expert with the government's Centre for Health Protection, said.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerConstruction crews sent from the mainland have built temporary isolation centres in Hong Kong for thousands of patients.
On the mainland, 831 new cases were reported on Sunday in Changchun, 571 in the nearby provincial capital city of Jilin and 150 in the eastern port city of Qingdao.
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