On the evening of June 16, at the 121st press conference of the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia in Beijing, Chen Bei, deputy secretary general of the Beijing Municipal Government, announced that the situation of the Beijing epidemic was very serious. From now on, the emergency response level of public health emergencies in Beijing has been adjusted to level two.

  From June 11 to June 15 at 2400, Beijing reported a total of 116 cases of positive nucleic acid tests, 106 confirmed cases, and 10 asymptomatic infections, all of which were directly or indirectly epidemiologically related to the new wholesale market. It spread to 9 blocks and 28 streets. It was preliminarily judged that this clustered epidemic was caused by infection caused by interpersonal transmission or environmental pollution of goods, and there was a clear secondary infection among the close contacts. (Editor Lu Jie)

Editor in charge: [Zhang Kaixin]