Police officers stand on duty at a temporary checkpoint for epidemic control on a road linking Gaocheng District and the urban area of Shijiazhuang, in north China's Hebei Province, Jan. 9, 2021. (Xinhua/Jin Haoyuan)
SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- North China's Hebei Province reported 40 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and six asymptomatic cases in the first 10 hours of Sunday, local authorities said.
All the newly found cases are in the provincial capital Shijiazhuang, and 26 of them were previously asymptomatic carriers, said Xu Jianpei, vice governor of Hebei.
Since Jan. 2, the province has reported 223 locally-transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases and 161 locally-transmitted asymptomatic carriers. ■
