BEIJING, June 14 — Lockdowns were imposed in parts of Beijing yesterday to try and prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster, highlighting the challenges that lie ahead even for places where outbreaks are under control. It has fuelled fears of a resurgence in local transmissions in China,...
Police guard a Beijing market linked to a new coronavirus cluster. — AFP pic
The respiratory disease was first detected in central China late last year, believed to have jumped from an animal to humans at a market that sold wildlife. “Everyone’s very stressed right now,” an elderly driver told AFP outside a fenced-off neighbourhood in Fengtai district of southwest Beijing.Worldwide, the pandemic has killed more than 426,000 people and infected more than 7.6 million, while wreaking large-scale economic devastation.
In the US, which has confirmed the most Covid-19 deaths with over 114,000, more than a dozen states, including two of the most populous, Texas and Florida, reported their highest-ever daily case totals this week. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis travelled to the picturesque island of Santorini yesterday to open his country’s tourism season.
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