“Completely sealed off”
The lockdown affects Chinese people in Anxin County, 150 kilometers from Beijing. According to the health authority, the place is “completely sealed off and checked”. The residents would have to stay at home. Only one member of each family was allowed to go out to do shopping and get medicine, it said.
The acute infections in Beijing raised fears of a widespread resurgence of the virus in China. After two months without new infections in Beijing, the number of new infections has risen to 311 since June 11.
Market as a starting point
The Xinfadi market in Beijing is believed to be the starting point. According to the authorities, around 200,000 people have visited the market since May 30. Much of Beijing’s fresh produce is traded on the wholesale food market. According to the state news agency Xinhua Anxin companies also supplied freshwater fish to the Xinfadi market.
Last week, workers from supermarkets and restaurants as well as delivery couriers were tested in large quantities for the corona virus. Beijing residents living in vulnerable neighborhoods were also checked.
The tests should now be extended to all employees of beauty and hairdressing salons in the capital, the state-run Chinese newspaper reports Global Times. Beijing official Xu Hejian said on Saturday, “We don’t have time to rest.” Chinese epidemiologist Wu Zunyou, on the other hand, told journalists last week that the outbreak in Beijing had been “brought under control”.
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