Hebei records new local case
Shijiazhuang, capital city of Hebei province, on Wednesday reported a new asymptomatic local case of COVID-19, according to a statement from the city's Xinhua district government on its official Sina Weibo account.
A male, surnamed Wang, tested positive for the virus on early Wednesday and is a close contact of a confirmed case in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province.
Wang attended a training course from Saturday to Sunday in a hotel in Wuhan, the statement said.
He left Wuhan for Shijiazhuang on Monday.
A total of 66 people attended the training course from Friday to Sunday, held in a hotel by a health product company, Li Tao, deputy secretary-general of the government of Wuhan, said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Twenty-four of the participants left Wuhan to go home, he added.
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