China's Shaanxi province reports 20 new imported coronavirus cases
09:20, 28/04/2020, TuesdayU: Update: 09:24, 28/04/2020, Tuesday
REUTERS
Workers in protective suits carry sanitizing equipment to disinfect trains at a maintenance depot, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Xian, Shaanxi province, China February 7, 2020. Picture taken February 7, 2020
China's northwestern Shaanxi province reported 20 new imported COVID-19 cases between 8 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday, the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper reported.
The report said the patients were all Chinese nationals who had arrived on an Air China flight from Moscow. There were five other passengers who were confirmed to be asymptomatic COVID-19 patients, the paper said.