CHINA has increased fears of a second outbreak of coronavirus after two cities were placed under lockdown.
Chinese officials have imposed quarantine restrictions on two cities in the province of Jilin located in north east China. Jilin is part of a wider province located in the Dongbei region - which is home to more than 100 million residents. The threat level in the area has been raised to “high-risk” by health authorities.
Health officials have identified two emergency hospitals to treat the suspected spike in COVID-19 infections.
Around 40,000 residents in the cities of Jilin and Shulan have been tested for coronavirus after officials were alerted to a possible new outbreak.
In the past 24 hours the Jilin health authority reported five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Jilin - located near to the borders with Russia and North Korea.
China has put two cities on lockdown (Image: EXPRESS)On Monday the National Health Commission (NHC) said there had six new cases of the deadly virus in China – including one in the city of Wuhan - which is widely thought to be the epicentre of the disease.
The NHC said three of the six new cases were imported.
The imported cases were all in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia to the west of Jilin.
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