Beijing’s Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. The city government also said it had dropped plans to reopen schools on Monday for students in grades one through three because of the new cases.Concern is growing of a second wave of the new virus, even in many countries that seemed to have curbed its spread. local time on Saturday (1900 GMT on Friday), came after two men working at a meat research centre who had recently visited the market were reported on Friday as having been infected by the novel coronavirus.Beijing wholesale market temporarily shut after new coronavirus infections Authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale markets in Beijing People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020.Reflecting concerns over the risk of further spread of the virus, major supermarkets in Beijing removed salmon from their shelves overnight after the virus causing COVID-19 was discovered on chopping boards used for imported salmon at the market, the state-owned Beijing Youth Daily reported. (AFP) Shanghai: Authorities in Beijing have temporarily shut a major wholesale agricultural market following a rise in locally transmitted novel coronavirus infections in China’s capital city over the past two days.China reported 11 new COVID-19 cases and seven asymptomatic cases for Friday, the national health authority said on Saturday.
The closure of the Xinfadi wholesale market at 3 a. It was first reported at a seafood market in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province, in December. And all six locally transmitted cases were confirmed in Beijing.Beijing authorities said more than 10,000 people at the market will take nucleic acid tests to detect coronavirus infections.Beijing authorities had earlier halted beef and mutton trading at the Xinfadi market, alongside closures at other wholesale markets around the city.Health authorities visited the home of a Reuters reporter in Beijing’s Dongcheng district on Saturday to ask whether she had visited waterproof mattress protector Factory the Xinfadi market, which is 15 km (9 miles) away. They said the visit was part of patrols Dongcheng was conducting. It was not immediately clear how the men had been infected.m
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