A health worker takes a swab test from a woman at Guang’an Sport Centre for people who visited or live near the Xinfadi Market in Beijing June 14, 2020. — AFP pic
According to the city’s health authority, contact tracing showed all the infected people had either worked or shopped inside Xinfadi, said to be the largest food market in Asia, or had been in contact with someone who was there. The Beijing outbreak has already spread to the neighbouring northeastern province of Liaoning. According to the provincial health authority, the two new cases confirmed in Liaoning today were both people who had been in close contact with confirmed cases in Beijing.
As of 3pm today, 10 neighbourhoods in Beijing, such as Financial Street, had raised their risk levels from low to medium.