Following China's  National Health Commission (NHC) revealing that from March 21 to April 7, over 2,400 people passed through the Suifenhe border alone and that 45 new COVID-19 cases were detected among returning Chinese nationals on April 6 and 7, authorities of the small city of Suifenhe, Heilongjiang province, sealed off the city’s border with Russia.  The report (The Paper, April 9) said City officials wasted no time locking things down and on April 8, ordered its 70,000 residents to remain indoors, with each household allowed to send one person out to buy essential items once every three days. On April 6, the city] authorities began building a 600-bed quarantine hospital that is scheduled to begin receiving patients on April 11.