On June 15, Shenzhen reported 13 imported confirmed cases and 12 imported asymptomatic cases of COVID-19.

The confirmed and asymptomatic cases are all passengers of flight CA868 which departed from Johannesburg, South Africa and arrived in Shenzhen on June 10. All passengers of the flight were quarantined upon entry, and 25 of them tested positive during a routine nucleic acid screening on June 15. After the test results were confirmed by the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the patients were transferred to the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen for treatment. Currently, all of them are in stable condition.

Among the 13 confirmed cases, seven are diagnosed as mild cases of COVID-19 and six are normal cases of COVID-19. All the nine males and four females are of Chinese nationality. The 12 asymptomatic cases include seven males and two females of Chinese nationality, one male and one female of South African nationality and one male of Zimbabwean nationality. A total of 32 positive cases reported have been linked to the flight as of press time.