A law enforcement officer stands guard at the entrance of the Xinfadi market Saturday in Beijing. A fresh cluster of coronavirus cases linked to the market prompted officials to institute immediate and sweeping restrictions, including the market's closure.A law enforcement officer stands guard at the entrance of the Xinfadi market Saturday in Beijing.
Authorities say there have been seven new cases in the past three days, all of which are connected to the Xinfadi market, the city's largest wholesale food market. Health officials said Saturday that, of the 517 samples that they took from market workers the day before, 45 tested positive for the virus.
Under China's standards for confirming coronavirus cases — which exclude asymptomatic individuals — this cluster of people won't be counted as confirmed until they begin displaying symptoms and come up positive on a separate nucleic acid test.
Authorities have shut down the market itself and parts of several others in the city, while canceling classes for at least nine schools nearby. Eleven residential neighborhoods in the city's Fengtai district now require temperature checks and are closed to outside visitors. The entire district has been placed in a"wartime emergency mode," Chu Junwei, a Fengtai official, told a news briefing Saturday,
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