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Half of China's Infections on Saturday Came From an International Flight
- Chinese nationals on the flight accounted for 51 new cases
- Imported cases also arriving across land border with Russia
Passengers of a Moscow-Shanghai flight at Sheremetyevo International Airport, April 9.
Photographer: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS via Getty Images
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More than half of the coronavirus infections reported by China on Sunday stemmed from a Russian flight to Shanghai on April 10, underscoring the possible severity of the outbreak in Russia.
Shanghai’s Municipal Health Commission said 51 of 52 imported cases on Saturday were of Chinese nationals who were diagnosed to have Covid-19 after they landed in the city. The travelers accounted for more than half of 97 imported infections China disclosed on Sunday morning. No other information was provided about the flight.