Quarantine lifted in China

China has ended a quarantine blockade around a northwestern town hit by pneumonic plague, Xinhua news agency reported.

The outbreak of the highly infectious disease killed three villagers around Ziketan town in Qinghai province. But with no new infections reported for over a week, authorities decided to lift the blockade on the remote town of 10,000 in a heavily ethnic Tibetan area, Xinhua reported.