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China extends lockdown to more areas in Beijing

Beijing is reintroducing severe lockdown measures and carrying mass testing of residents after a new cluster of COVID-19 cases appeared in one of its largest wholesale food markets.

The Beijing Municipal Health Commission announced 27 fresh Covid-19 cases Tuesday, taking the five-day total to 106 following a flare-up at Xinfadi, the city’s largest wholesale food market, CTV News reported.

Authorities have traced down approximately 200,000 people who had been to the market during the two weeks prior to its closing. They have been ordered to stay at home for medical observation and are being tested for the coronavirus, a city official told a news conference on Monday.

The coronavirus was first identified in December at a seafood market in Wuhan, capital of the central Chinese province of Hubei, and has since spread around the world, infecting more than 8 million people.

 

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