Parts of Beijing locked down due to fresh virus cluster COVID19
Dozens of people tested positive for the coronavirus in Beijing, as parts of the city were locked down Saturday after the emergence of a new cluster linked to a wholesale food market.
But another 45 asymptomatic cases -- which China counts separately -- were detected after mass testing of nearly 2,000 workers at the market on Friday, city health official Pang Xinghuo later told reporters.Another worker tested positive at a farmers' market in the city's northwestern district of Haidian. They were a close contact of one of the confirmed cases linked to Xinfadi.
These measures had mostly been lifted as the infection rate dropped, and the majority of cases reported in recent months were citizens living abroad who were tested as they returned home during the pandemic. AFP reporters saw hundreds of police officers and dozens of paramilitary police deployed at the two markets, with no one allowed to leave Xinfadi.
Nine nearby schools and kindergartens have been closed. On Friday, Beijing delayed the return of students to primary schools across the city, and suspended all sporting events and group dining.The chairman of the Xinfadi market told state-run Beijing News that the virus was detected on chopping boards used to handle imported salmon, stoking fears over the hygiene of the city's food supply.
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