Jingmen, a city near Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, has become another city of concern amid the recent outbreak as 33 new infections including confirmed cases and asymptomatic carriers were reported on Monday, 22 of them were in the city. Photo: VCG

Jingmen, a city near Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, has become another city of concern amid the recent outbreak as 33 new infections including confirmed cases and asymptomatic carriers were reported on Monday, 22 of them were in the city.

No cases were reported to be in a serious condition, according to the provincial health commission on Tuesday.

Jingmen added 10 new confirmed cases and 12 asymptomatic infections on Monday. Since it reported its first case on Wednesday, the city has in total 18 confirmed cases and 12 asymptomatic carriers as of Tuesday. All the patients are now being treated in a hospital.

A total of 2,195 people who have close contacts with the infected patients have been put in centralized quarantine for medical observation.

Five more bus lines of the city have been suspended since 9:30 am on Tuesday. So far, all the 38 bus lines of the city's bus group have been suspended, with reopen time unsettled.

Local health commission informed that after tracing routes of infections, all cases reported in Jingmen are related to migrant workers in Wuhan Dunkou project site of China Construction Third Bureau, who came in contact with a tour group from Huaian in East China's Jiangsu Province at a railway station in Jingzhou.

The latest round of epidemic outbreak in Hubei can be traced back to Dunkou project site in Wuhan, according to disease prevention and control center on Friday.