Testing Time

　　A worker in the disease prevention and control center in Changxing, a county in Zhejiang Province in east China, passes samples ready for testing for COVID-19 on April 21. As production has resumed and some students have returned to school recently, the center is doing more tests for the safety of workers and students.

　　Revised FiguresThe city of Wuhan in central China revised its numbers of confi rmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases and deaths on April 17.

　　The total number of cases by the end of April 16 was revised up by 325 to 50,333. The number of fatalities went up by 1,290 to 3,869.

　　The Wuhan municipal headquarters for COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control said the revisions were made in accordance with related laws and regulations.

　　One reason for the data revision is that the surging number of patients at the early stage of the epidemic overwhelmed medical resources and the capacity of medical institutions. Some patients died at home without being treated in hospitals.

　　An offi cial of the headquarters told the media that a team was established in late March for collecting and analyzing epidemic-related big data and making epidemiological investigations.

　　The team used information from online systems and all epidemicrelated locations to ensure the accuracy of the facts and fi gures.

　　Epidemic Control The Chinese health authority has scaled up testing and treatment for COVID-19 infections in border areas as the country faces a rising risk of imported cases.

　　With an over 22,000-km land border dotted with 91 land ports,along with a large number of side routes, China faces a high risk of COVID-19 imports via its land border.

　　However, the medical service capacity in some border regions is relatively insuffi cient for epidemic control, Guo Yanhong, an offi cial with the National Health Commission (NHC), said at a press conference on April 21.

　　The NHC has instructed the nine provincial-level regions with land ports to make targeted response plans to intensify containment efforts and prepare for imported cases, Guo said.

　　Medical professionals and epidemic containment experts have been dispatched to some border areas facing a mounting challenge of imported cases.

　　Beijing Patents

　　Beijing ranks fi rst in China and is nearly 10 times the national average in the number of invention patents per 10,000 people.

　　At the end of 2019, the number of invention patents per 10,000 people in the capital city reached 132, according to a press conference of the Beijing Intellectual Property Offi ce on April 21.

　　The number of patent applications in Beijing reached 226,100 in 2019, up 7.1 percent year on year, Pan Xinsheng, spokesperson and deputy director of the offi ce, said. He added that of the total, 129,900 were invention patents, up 10.4 percent year on year.

　　Mean while, Beijing saw 546,600 trademark applications. Its number of copyright registrations reached 1 million in the period, the top in the country, including 202,700 software copyright registrations.

　　The municipal cultural law enforcement department confi scated 22,000 pirated products and destroyed more than 1.5 million pirated books last year. Courts in Beijing handled 80,165 intellectual property lawsuits with 79,769 cases settled, Pan said.

　　New Cargo Flight A Boeing 787 wide-body plane loaded with parcels took off from Shenzhen in south China for Tel Aviv in Israel on April 21, marking the opening of the weekly cross-border e-commerce charter cargo fl ight between the two cities.

　　Hainan Airlines launched a direct fl ight between Shenzhen and Tel Aviv in 2019. Partnering with Cainiao, e-commerce giant Alibaba’s logistics subsidiary, and Guangzhou Hayonex Logistics Co., the airline transformed the passenger plane into a cargo plane for the service.

　　According to the Shenzhen airport, besides the original cargo hold, the passenger cabin with over 200 seats has been turned into cargo space, adding another 10 tons of cargo capacity.