Coronavirus student's travel route released

Shanghai’s authorities have released the travel itinerary of a student who tested positive for novel coronavirus on Wednesday after arriving in the city on July 13.

The 19-year-old university male student from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was showing no symptoms when he took a flight from Urumqi in Xinjiang to Shanghai’s Hongqiao airport at 11:30pm on July 13. 

After spending two nights in a Jinjiang Inn hotel in Changning District, he took a high-speed train (the G7315) to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province.

The person went to a Hangzhou hospital for treatment on the eye on Tuesday and was scheduled to be hospitalized for an eye surgery. He was tested positive in nucleic acid on Tuesday before the surgery and was diagnosed as an asymptomic infector of coronavirus on Wednesday.

Four close contacts in Shanghai have been tracked and all of them are healthy and have underwent health management. Tracking is underway and all the places he has been to are being disinfected, the authority said.