China’s Jilin province increases in confirmed coronavirus cases

An elderly man wears a mask while walking past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of Coronavirus, on January 17, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Getty Images. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

JILIN, May 19, 2020, China Daily. Jilin city of Jilin province reported five new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from Monday to 1 am on Tuesday, bringing the total number of locally confirmed cases in the city to 39 since May 7, when the first case in a COVID-19 cluster was detected, China Daily reported.

Of the five new cases, one was in Shulan and the rest were in Jilin’s Fengman district, according to a press release from the city government on Tuesday.

As of Monday, Jilin province had reported 19 imported cases, but all patients have recovered and were discharged from the hospital.