As three other provinces reported new cases linked to the Beijing cluster, several provinces warned their residents against non-essential travel to the capital and implemented isolation protocols for travellers from riskier parts of Beijing.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in mainland China now stands at 83,132, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

China has reported 4,634 deaths from COVID-19, a figure that has been static for weeks, among 83,064 total cases since the virus was first detected in the central Chinese industrial city of Wuhan.

Canada’s research on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is a 'valuable target' for foreign hackers, say intelligence agencies

Canadians want Justin Trudeau to get tough on China, Matthew Fisher says. 'If the prime minister is not brave enough to do that, China may become a major election issue.'

Peter MacKay is calling for use of the Magnitsky Act if specific individuals in China can be identified as having suppressed information related to COVID-19.

Questions have long swirled around the accuracy of China’s case reporting, with Wuhan in particular going several days in January without reporting new cases or deaths.

Top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus but reportedly waited six days before informing the public.

All of the 48 cases were imported, bringing the total number of imported cases in China to 771 as of Monday. There was no reported new case of local infection.