BEIJING - A Beijing district put itself on a “wartime” footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred around a major wholesale market sparked fears of a new wave of COVID-19.
None were showing symptoms of COVID-19, he said, but added that 11 neighbourhoods in the vicinity of the market, which claims to be the largest agricultural wholesale market in Asia, had been locked down with 24-hour guards put in place. The entire Xinfadi market was shut down at 3 a.m. on Saturday , after two men working at a meat research centre who had recently visited the market were reported to have the virus. It was not immediately clear how they had been infected.
According to the Xinfadi website, more than 1,500 tonnes of seafood, 18,000 tonnes of vegetables and 20,000 tonnes of fruit are traded at the market daily.A city spokesman told the briefing that all six COVID-19 patients confirmed in Beijing on Friday had visited the Xinfadi market. The capital will suspend sports events and tourists from other parts of China, effective immediately, he said.
Highlighting the new sense of alarm within the city, health authorities visited the home of a Reuters reporter in Beijing’s Dongcheng district on Saturday to ask whether she had visited the Xinfadi market, which is 15 km away. They said the visit was part of patrols Dongcheng was conducting.
‘Wartime emergencies’? Come on, we like ‘draconian’ rules. You can die if you want, not us.
It probably was a bad bat.
PRC and PLA doing what they are good at !disinformation,fearmongering,unleashing terror and death to mankind.
Some Chinese nationalists might say:”The problem must be the imported seafood,so Norway needs to be blamed.”
Part of CCP’s plan! China lied people died!
Oh my God. CHINA! SHUT DOWN YOUR WET MARKETS!!!! Sars, H1V1, the Avian bird flu and now the Coronavirus all came from your wet markets. SHUT THEM DOWN NOW!
A clean instance of animal to human jump. Evidence seem to suggest frozen salmon
Here we go here we go here we go.
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