COVID-19 Outbreak Worsens in China’s Inner Mongolia

A health worker takes a swab from a resident to be tested for the CCP virus as part of a mass testing program following a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Qingdao, a city located in eastern China's Shandong Province on Oct. 13, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in China’s Inner Mongolia. Local authorities in the city of Manzhouli have raised the emergency level to “medium risk” and have tightened its borders  with neighboring Russia to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Four locally transmitted cases in Manzhouli were confirmed by the Inner Mongolia health commission on Dec. 1.