COVID-19: Chinese city on the Russian border to go under lockdown

China on April 8 imposed a lockdown in its rrnmost Suifenhe city of Heilongjiang province after it experienced a surge in imported coronavirus cases. Heilongjiang province shares its land border with Russia and Chinese authorities shut it down to prevent coronavirus infected individuals from entering former Soviet Union. As per reports, China anunced temporary closure of its roughly 2,672-mile land border with Russia. 

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Chinese embassy in Moscow anunced informed about closure of border without indicating when checkpoints would be reopened again. China has been successful in containing disease in Wuhan city by imposing a strict lockdown and making it compulsory to wear masks in public, which many western countries failed to implement in time. coronavirus curve in China has been flattened in past few weeks with just a few new cases coming every day.

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According to reports, China on April 7 for first time in more than two months recorded zero deaths from COVID-19. China has also faced a lot of criticism for its handling of pandemic as global community accused communist country of t disclosing information on time. 

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Coronavirus outbreak

dely coronavirus infection has claimed nearly 89,400 lives across world and has infected over 15,29,000 people globally since it first broke out in December 2019. China was most affected country until last month before Italy and Spain surpassed it to record most number of deaths anywhere in world due to COVID-19. United States, France, United Kingdom, and Iran have also overtaken China in terms of COVID-19 death toll. virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in China's Wuhan city, epicentre of disease, where animals were reportedly being tred illegally.

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