37 new cases

CHINESE health authority said Thursday that it received reports of 37 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Wednesday, including 30 locally transmitted.

House collapses

THREE workers were trapped and later found dead after a makeshift house collapsed at a coal mine in North China’s Shanxi Province, local authorities said Wednesday.

Relief funds

CHINA has allocated 300 million yuan (US$43 million) in disaster relief funds for Anhui Province that was hit by floods, the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) said Wednesday.