Eastern Anhui province reported two new confirmed local infections of the coronavors disease in the first 12 hours of Sunday, the provincial health commission said, state media Xinhua reports.
Both patients emerged in the Yu'an district of Lu'an city. As of Sunday noon, the province had seven confirmed patients, five in Lu'an and two in the provincial capital of Hefei. It also had seven non symptomatic locals, all in Lu'an.
Dong Mingpei, the commission's deputy head, said all the patients reported in Anhui's latest resurgence are related to a training session at a photo studio in Lu'an. The infections reported so far were either from session participants, studio employees, customers, or their close contacts.
Residents line up for nucleic acid testing at a community in Yu'an district of Lu'an city, in eastern China's Anhui province, May 15, 2021.