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24th Feb 2020, Agriculture Bank of China branch in Taiyuan (the capital of Shanxi province) put cash in a sterilizer.According to the new rules of China's central government, cash has to be stored for 14 days after disinfected by ultraviolet rays or high-temperature sterilization.

Huoshenshan Hospital is a 1,000-bed facility built in 10 days as part of China’s sweeping efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Hu Jing, matron of Section 1 of Huoshenshan Hospital, uses red disinfecting can disinfect the room before new patients move in. 

The Yichang government decided to lock down all the micro-districts in Yichang city to fight against Coronavirus from 17th Feb 2020.

Three local government officials were punished as they were held accountable for inefficiency in preventing and controlling the spread of novel coronavirus in Yueqing, East China's Zhejiang province, according to a notice from the provincial commission for discipline inspection on Sunday.

The notice said the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yueqing, a county-level city in Wenzhou, a city with the largest number of confirmed cases outside the virus epicenter in Central China's Hubei province, failed to perform its duties in checking, recording and reporting people who had close contact with infected patients, and didn't report the cases arising from gatherings in time, leading to a leak in the virus control network.