Fall in coronavirus cases in China amid fears over second surge

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The number of new coronavirus cases in China has fallen&comma; suggesting a recent spike appears to be on the wane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A dozen new cases were reported on Wednesday&comma; down from 22 on the previous day&comma; while seven cases were found in the capital Beijing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No new deaths were reported and 359 people remained in treatment for Covid-19&comma; with another 118 in monitoring and isolation for testing positive for the virus while showing no symptoms or being suspected cases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It comes as Australia recorded its first death from coronavirus for more than a month&comma; increasing the country’s toll to 103&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China has reported 4&comma;634 deaths from among 83&comma;430 cases of Covid-19 since the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan late last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Beijing’s June outbreak saw more than 200 cases&comma; most linked to the city’s biggest wholesale market&comma; and led to some new lockdowns and the cancellation of classes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since then&comma; three million test samples have been taken from 2&period;43 million people in the city&comma; a senior municipal health official said on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The city can now conduct more than 300&comma;000 nucleic acid tests per day&comma; compared with 40&comma;000 in March&comma; said Zhang Hua&comma; deputy director of the Beijing Health Commission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>High-risk groups in the markets involved in the outbreak as well as surrounding communities were made a testing priority&comma; along with workers in restaurants&comma; supermarkets&comma; food delivery workers and parcel couriers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is very important for the early detection of infections&comma; the timely isolation and treatment&comma; the quick cutting off of spreading and the effective containment of the epidemic&comma;” Mr Zhang said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; authorities in the Australian state of Victoria said a man in his 80s had died with Covid-19&comma; lifting the state’s total to 20&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The state recorded double-digit increase in cases for an eighth consecutive day&comma; with 20 new cases confirmed on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton said 241 cases in the state have been identified as community transmission&comma; an increase of eight since Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed62b754ea7">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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