Northern Hebei province reported four coronavirus patients and 13 non symptomatic patients on Monday, all locals, according to the Health Commission of Hebei, China Daily reports.
The latest outbreak emerged on Sunday in the province, when it reported a local patients with mild symptoms. The patient was located in Gaocheng district in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei.
All the close contacts of the 61-year-old woman have been put under centralized quarantine for medical observation, the district's anti-virus work leading group office said.
Shijiazhuang declared on Sunday a "wartime state" against the virus and launched an all-round working mechanism for preventing and controlling transmission of the novel coronavirus.
Among the newly reported cases on Monday, two confirmed patients and an asymptomatic patient are from Nangong city in the province's Xingtai city.
Nangong has started nucleic acid tests for all its residents -- local government's website shows it has a population of about 500,000. "Don't go out of or into the city if not necessary," the city's anti-virus agency said.
