CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Wednesday, August 4, 2021 | 3 TOP NEWS Drawing Mahjong, poker wisdom A teacher performs the Kaibi ceremony for a child at a teaching institution in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Tuesday. A series venues targeted of rituals were performed at the traditional cultural ceremony, including drawing red dots on children’s foreheads to open their “wisdom eye” (a ritual to amid new cases encourage children to study hard), beating drums to awaken Official says 40 patients in Jiangsu’s children’s minds and performing calligraphy. Yangzhou found to have visited sites TAN YUNFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY By CANG WEI in Nanjing Yangzhou and has had severe ram-
[email protected] ifications, according to police. Yangzhou, in the interest of To contain the spread of COVID- timely epidemic intervention, has 19, Jiangsu province has suspend- offered a reward of up to 10,000 ed 45,371 mahjong and poker yuan ($1,550) for information that lounges, the province’s Informa- leads to locating people who tion Office said on Tuesday. played mahjong in three lounges Zhou Minghao, deputy director where people who have confirmed of the provincial health commis- COVID-19 cases had registered. sion, said at a news conference on Anyone reporting a person Tuesday that about 64 percent of playing mahjong in the three the 94 locally transmitted cases lounges will be rewarded 5,000 reported in Yangzhou involved yuan, while an additional 5,000 mahjong enthusiasts, and the rest yuan will be given if the person were their close contacts. who is reported is confirmed to be Chinese delegation first to win Games: On Tuesday, Yangzhou, a popu- infected with the virus.