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About three-quarters of those, or 1,412 cases, were in Jilin province in the northeast, where access to the industrial city of Changchun has been suspended. Families there were told to stay at home following a spate of infections.
Chinaâs infection numbers are relatively low but authorities are enforcing a âzero toleranceâ strategy to find and quarantine every infected person.
In Hong Kong, the territoryâs government reported 15,789 new daily cases, down by almost half from Saturdayâs total.
The territoryâs leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, warned Saturday the peak of the latest infection surge might not be past yet.
Authorities in Jilin are stepping up anti-disease measures after concluding their earlier response was inadequate, according to Zhang Yan, deputy director of the provincial Health Commission.
âThe emergency response mechanism in some areas is not sound enough,â Zhang said at a news conference, according to a transcript released by the government.
In Shanghai, Chinaâs most populous city, the number of cases in the latest surge rose by 15 to 432.
The city government called on the public not to leave unless necessary. It said bus service would be suspended starting on Sunday.
âThose who come or return to Shanghai must have a negative nucleic acid test report within 48 hours before arrival,â said a city health agency statement.
On the mainland, 831 new cases were reported in Changchun, 571 in the nearby provincial capital city of Jilin, 150 in the eastern port city of Qingdao and 60 in Shenzhen, a business center adjacent to Hong Kong.
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