Gansu provincial authorities confirmed 17 more cases of nCoV, bringing the number of people infected on flights from Iran to 28.

17 new cases of nCoV have been detected among 283 passengers in quarantine in Lanzhou city. These people arrived in Lanzhou on commercial flights on March 2, according to a March 6 statement issued by the Gansu Provincial Health Commission.

China warns of the risk of reinfection of nCoV from other countries in the context that it recognizes positive signs in Covid-19 control. Eight new cases of nCoV have been detected in Zhejiang on March 2 and 3, with overseas Chinese returning from the town of Bergamo in Lombardy, the center of the epidemic in Italy.

Gansu was the first province in China to lower its emergency alert level to three on a four-step alert in February because the local population recorded fewer new infections. Prior to new infections from Iran, Gansu recorded 91 cases and two deaths.

Covid-19 started in Wuhan in December 2019 and spread to 31 provinces and cities of China. As of March 6, 96 countries and territories appeared Covid-19 with more than 100,000 cases, more than 3,400 deaths and nearly 56,000 people recovered. The number of new infections has increased rapidly in South Korea, Italy and Iran, but has gradually decreased in China.

Iranian officials today announced that the country had recorded more than 1,200 new cases of nCoV, a record increase since the Middle East country Covid-19. Neighboring countries and many more distant countries such as Canada and the United States recorded cases of nCoV infection related to Iran.