Residents of city in Guangxi quarantined

Businesses, schools closed as officials in Baise contend with latest outbreak

All residents in Baise were placed under home quarantine on Monday to block the spread of the novel coronavirus in the largest prefecture-level city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, a senior city official said.

Guangxi reported 56 confirmed cases between 4 pm on Sunday and noon on Monday, pushing the region's confirmed case total during its latest COVID-19 outbreak, which began Saturday, to 99. All of the region's cases have been detected in Baise.

Due to the outbreak, all intercity and urban public transportation services have been suspended, and local schools and various training institutions have been closed, Gu Junyan, a vice-mayor of Baise, told a news conference in the city's Debao county on Monday.