The continued spread of Covid-19 remains a real threat for many countries, as Chinese city scales up measures and Japan manages another outbreak onboard a cruise ship.
In the Chinese city of Harbin preventative measures were scaled up again as local clusters of Covid-19 cases grew. Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang province bordering Russia, has had clusters of infections in a local hospital throughout the month, and local residential communities were put in strict quarantine to avoid cross contamination.
Yesterday, state media reported an incident of one virus carrier passing on the disease to more than 40 people, which caused one local hospital shut down for a full disinfection.