Health officials in surrounding districts have also been asking residents whether they have visited the Xinfadi market.The market was closed after someone, who had recently visited it, was reported to have been infected on Thursday.
As well as halting domestic tourism, sporting events have also been suspended in the city, while plans to reopen schools for some students have been dropped. Pang Xinghuo, an official at the Beijing Centre for Disease Control, said:"Preliminary judgement suggests these cases may have come into contact with a contaminated environment in the market, or were infected after being in contact with infected people.Sky's Asia correspondent Siobhan Robbins said:"People in the area have been told not to leave their houses.
"It is a worrying time for Beijing because it hadn't had a locally transmitted case for almost two months, so it just shows you how tricky COVID-19 is to keep under control, and Beijing isn't taking any chances. "Not only are these areas in lockdown, some schools and nurseries in the area were closed on Friday, several other markets have been shut as well.
Here we go again
Dirty food markets
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UH O china caught lying to world AGAIN How many times are we going to listen to the BS, no new cases Then the real truth comes out, oozes out of china The lies, deceitful acts, the world sees the truth Soon enough, nations want answers ChinaLiedPeopleDied chinamustpay
Just a cold
But Xi Jinping has beaten the virus and said only foreigners have it now. I'm very confused? How could this happen?
How can this be ? Thought it was done & dusted 🤔
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