Security personnel guard an entrance into an exhibition centre used for screening oversea arrivals in Beijing.
Of those, 16 were imported, including five in Beijing. Three of the cases in Beijing involved travellers from Spain while one came from Italy and the other from Thailand. People who falsely report information, conceal a disease or cause the spread of the epidemic will be punished according to the regulations, she cautioned.
Travellers who are transiting through Beijing to other destinations will be given special assistance, it said. The Gansu government said one of its cases was linked to a charter flight from Iran while the others were travellers from Saudi Arabia. Zhejiang province did not say where its four imported cases were from.