BEIJING: Beijing carried out mass testing for the coronavirus on Sunday (Jun 14) after a new outbreak in the city that prompted travel warnings ...
A health worker wearing a protective suit takes a swab test from a woman at Guang’an Sport Centre for people who visited or live near the Xinfadi Market in Beijing, China. BEIJING: Beijing carried out mass testing for the coronavirus on Sunday after a new outbreak in the city that prompted travel warnings across the country amid fears of a resurgence of the disease.
Another two domestic infections were in northeastern Liaoning province and were close contacts of the Beijing cases.The 19 other infections were among Chinese nationals returning from abroad. Officials said on Sunday they planned to carry out virus tests on 46,000 residents in the area surrounding the market and had set up 24 testing stations.
"We were told that after the tests ... if it is positive, we will be taken directly to the hospital."One of Sunday's new cases was a 56-year-old man who works as an airport bus driver and had visited the Xinfadi market in early June before later falling ill, state-run People's Daily reported.
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