The coronavirus outbreak in a Beijing market may have started a month before the cluster became apparent, the chief of China’s disease control centre has said.
Beijing battles ‘explosive Covid-19 outbreak’ as market cases mountOnline news portal Caixin reported on Wednesday that the Xinfadi cluster may have already begun in May, according to Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the Beijing’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said case numbers might still increase even though the outbreak had been caught early.
Zhang Qiang, an official with the Beijing municipal committee of the Communist Party of China, said that more than 356,000 people who worked at food markets, had been to markets where there had been confirmed cases or lived in nearby estates had been tested since Sunday. China bans salmon imports over new outbreak as consumers leap to conclusionsParty mouthpiece People’s Daily reported on Twitter that 1,255 flights were cancelled at two Beijing airports, accounting for 70 per cent of scheduled trips, on Wednesday morning. Passengers who booked train tickets in and out of Beijing have been allowed to refund tickets without fees.
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