BEIJING (Reuters) – A district of Beijing was on a “wartime” footing and the capital prohibited tourism on Saturday after a cluster of unique coronavirus infections centred around a significant wholesale market triggered worries of a new age of COVID-19
People are using face masks inside the Jingshen seafood market which has actually been closed for business after new coronavirus infections were spotted, in Beijing, China, June 12,2020 REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Concern is growing of a second wave of the pandemic, which has actually infected more than 7.66 million people worldwide and eliminated more than 420,000, even in lots of nations that seemed to have curbed its spread.
The infection was initially reported at a seafood market in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province, in December.
Chu Junwei, an official of Beijing’s southwestern Fengtai district, told a briefing on Saturday that the district was in “wartime emergency mode”.
Throat swabs from 45 individuals, out of 517 tested at the district’s Xinfadi wholesale market, had evaluated favorable for the new co