Since the city began to report on the first case in what is now considered an outbreak of the virus in Putian on September 10, the city has remained something of a provincial centre for covid-19. (On the same day, the locality also registered four asymptomatic cases.) 

According to the most recent data released by the commission, 33 out of 50 total known cases of the virus in Fujian belonged to the city of Putian as of September 14.  

Reporting from the Business of Fashion, published on the same day, stated that some of Putian’s cases could be traced back to employees of a shoe factory, of which there are believed to be roughly 4,200 in the city.  

Putian’s positive diagnoses do appear to have been somewhat stifled in recent days, however, as per China Daily reports from September 12, cited by the commission, which said that 32 locally transmitted confirmed covid cases and 32 asymptomatic local carriers had been registered in the city on that day alone.  

Earlier, on September 11, Fujian party secretary, Yin Li, told reporters that the outbreak situation was severe and complex, Reuters relayed.