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Large-scale traditional religious activities during the Tibetan New Year, which falls on Feb. 24 this year, will be suspended this year in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, local authorities said Monday.
Tibet has another laboratory able to conduct nucleic acid testing for coronavirus, authorities said.
To help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, people from all walks of life in Tibet have united to fight the epidemic by donating money and needed materials to hard-hit regions.
Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region actively carried out the State Council’s promotion of mobile phone data fee reduction and internet speed acceleration in 2019, China Tibet News reported on Friday.
The Tibet autonomous region on Saturday has removed 32 people from medical observation who had contacts with the region’s only one confirmed novel coronavirus patient, according to the region’s health commission.
No new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infections had been reported in Tibet by Friday since the region reported its first case on Jan.29, according to the regional health commission.
In Numa Village of Zhixigang Town, Gar County, Nagri Prefecture, southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, there is an arched bridge named Numa Bridge. Pema Urgyen, has guarded it for most of his life.
Renqing Cuomu‘s job includes feeding the birds on the bank of Lhasa River and clearing out rubbish along the bank from the section between the Lhasa Bridge and the Yingqin Bridge.