A deliveryman carries daily necessities at a residential area under closed-off management in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Dec. 31, 2021. Xi'an imposed closed-off management for communities and villages on Dec. 23 in an effort to curb the spread of the latest COVID-19 resurgence. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)

 

Xi'an, the ancient city famous of Terracotta Warriors in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, registered 2,004 confirmed COVID-19 cases in a month as of Sunday, becoming the domestically-transmitted outbreak with the largest number of confirmed cases on Chinese mainland since the Wuhan epidemic. 

On Sunday, Xi'an reported 15 confirmed cases, marking the third day the city has registered a number of confirmed infections lower than 50. 

The number of confirmed domestically-transmitted cases in the city has surpassed 2,000 since December 9, 2021. 

"Epidemic in Xi'an is the largest domestically-transmitted epidemic since Wuhan outbreak, with the largest number of cases and the largest scale for a megacity," said Li Qun, an expert from the Shaanxi epidemiological expert team affiliated with the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council.

But the resurgence in Xi'an is developing toward good trends as the infections have been declining in January 2022. Although newly cases will be reported, the risk of a large-scale epidemic resurgence has been basically controlled, Li said. 

Global Times