While the world was just beginning to recover after a first wave of contamination by the coronavirus, the information that reaches China is worrying, the country has relapsed, and this time, it is the immense capital Beijing which was affected.
The spokesperson for the Beijing town hall spoke this Tuesday, June 16 in front of the media on Tuesday to say that the situation is “extremely serious”. The city of Beijing is engaged in a race against the clock against the COVID-19. The “extremely serious” situation, “he warned.
Since last week, the Chinese capital has identified more than a hundred new cases of COVVI-19 contamination. The city of 21 million inhabitants has brought its daily screening capacity to more than 90,000 people a day, reports the AFP agency.
This rebound in contamination was detected around the Xinfadi market, in the south of the capital and prompted the authorities to decree the confinement of around thirty residential areas, but also the closure of sports and cultural sites.
A first case of COVID-19 in Beijing had been announced this Thursday, June 11, the first in two months. It turned out that this person went to the Xinfadi market last week and had not left the city recently. Among the six new cases announced last Saturday are three employees of the market in question.
