Nanjing of East China's Jiangsu province reported two confirmed asymptomatic coronavirus cases on Wednesday. The two people, together with another person of their family who showed symptoms, have been sent to one of the city's hospitals designated for treating pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.

The local health department has disinfected the environment and garbage of the community they lived in. It also ordered all 14 families that lived in the same building with the infected family to stay at home for medical observation of the novel coronavirus.

All people living in the community have been given notice of the health risk. Workers of the community will provide food and other daily necessaries to people under observation.