China's official state-controlled China Central Television (CCTV) reported on July 21, 2014, that Yumen city in China's north-western Gansu province had been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague. The 30,000 residents of Yumen were not being allowed to leave, and police at roadblocks on the perimeter of the city were telling motorists to find alternative routes, CCTV said. The China Daily newspaper added that four quarantine sectors had been set up in the city. CCTV also assured that "The city has enough rice, flour and oil to supply all its residents for up to one month," and that "local residents and those in quarantine are all in stable condition." 

The quarantine was lifted on July 24, since there have been no further cases reported.