BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing on Sunday reported a record 36 new cases of COVID-19 in China’s capital, all connected to a major food wholesale market, raising issues about the spike in a nation that had actually sharply reduced its infections.
A law enforcement officer using a face mask is seen outside an entryway of the Xinfadi wholesale market, which has been closed for service after brand-new coronavirus infections were identified, in Beijing, China June 13,2020 cnsphoto by means of REUTERS.
The city has bought testing of anyone connected to the Xinfadi market, after the district including the marketplace put itself on a “wartime” footing and Beijing prohibited tourism and sports occasions in the middle of worries of a new age of the pandemic in the nation where it occurred last year.
” Beijing has actually entered a remarkable duration,” city spokesman Xu Hejian informed a press conference on Sunday.
The new cases for Saturday and the rest of the 43 cases re