Quarantining measures are ongoing for many residents of the Chinese city of Wuxi amidst an outbreak of COVID-19.
Wuxi, a city of 7.5 million residents and 80 miles northwest of Shanghai, is an important commercial and trade hub of Jiangsu Province.
According to official city announcements, this wave of the pandemic outbreak began on June 25, when two people from Anhui Province tested positive forĀ  COVID-19, and they spread the disease to colleagues at a construction site in Wuxi.
As of July 4, a total of 145 people have tested positive for COVID-19, and 24 locations have been designated high-risk areas, in which local residents are confined strictly to their households, a Wuxi municipal notice reads….