China Reports New 109 Cases of COVID-19

China to ease two-month travel lockdown on coronavirus epicenter
China to ease two-month travel lockdown on coronavirus epicenter

China announced on Sunday that 109 new confirmed COVID-19 cases during have been reported.

There were 72 new cases in Hebei province, where the government is building isolation hospitals with a total of 9,500 rooms to combat an upsurge in infections, according to the National Health Commission.

Though the Jan. 16 tally of new cases was less than the previous day's 130, China has in the past week seen the number of daily cases jump to an over 10-month high. The unsettling trend has emerged while a World Health Organization-led (WHO) team of investigators remained in quarantine in the city of Wuhan, where the disease was first detected in late 2019.

The team aims to investigate the origins of the pandemic that has now killed over 2 million people worldwide.

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