New York Times reported on February 11, citing health officials from Tianjin City, China, of the 102 confirmed cases of new corona virus infection (Covid-19) in the city, at least 33 patients were employees or customers who shop at a supermarket in Baodi district or who have close contact with them. Many of them have not come to the center of Wuhan recently.

An estimated 11,700 customers were shopping here around the end of January. Local officials said they plan to isolate those customers after the blockade has been sealed and disinfected.

It is not clear how local officials were able to identify the customers who had been shopping at the supermarket around the end of January, but Tianjin health authorities issued warnings on social media and transmitted them. informed, urging people to proactively contact the government if they have been shopping at the supermarket.

According to media sources, Tianjin City has set up various checkpoints in the city to ask whether people have ever shopped at the supermarket.

In addition, Baodi District, where there are about 1 million people, also apply emergency measures such as 24-hour security patrols, controlling entrances in some residential areas. Some residents are only allowed to leave the home every 2 days.

Outbreaks of new strain of coronary pneumonia (Covid-2019) outbreak from Wuhan city, Hubei province, China since late 2019. Up to now, this disease has claimed the lives of 1,115 people in the world. , making more than 45,000 people infected. In particular, the deaths and infections mainly in the center of Hubei, only 2 deaths outside mainland China.