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China has stepped up its corona19 quarantine measures, including forcibly quarantining people from South Korea. Chinese state media have argued that this is not an ungrateful act but a deterrent.

Song Woo correspondent in Beijing.

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The 19 Koreans who were quarantined at Shanhai Weihai Airport are under corona19 diagnostic tests.

City officials say a sound from the inspection could be lifted from quarantine.

More than 160 passengers who arrived from Weihai yesterday (25th) and arrived in Weihai moved directly from the airport to containment.

It is China's first enforcement action against people coming from Korea.

Some areas in Shandong, Qingdao, Beijing, and Shanghai have been self-contained for two weeks for those from Korea.

Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, had all Koreans come to undergo corona 19 inspection, while Heilongjiang Harbin City had to report to Daegu Gyeongbuk residents and recent visitors.

Three Chinese fever passengers were found yesterday on flights to Nanjing Airport from Incheon, and around 60 Korean passengers were quarantined at designated hotels.

China's state-of-the-art news agency argues that such measures by local governments are ungrateful.

In China, more than 400 new confirmations and 52 deaths were reported yesterday, and new confirmations outside of Hubei province had single digits for two consecutive days.

In China, there are more than 77,000 confirmed cases of corona 19 and 2,700 deaths.