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June 13, 2020Covid-19 outbreak in Beijing's largest grocery wholesale market. The Xinfadi market, in the southwestern district of Fengtai, was closed by the health authorities in the night between yesterday and today after an increase in infections in the Chinese capital that occurred in the last three days and eleven residential complexes have been subject to lockdown.According to the latest update of the National Health Commission, there are eleven cases registered in China in the last twenty-four hours, including five imported and six registered in the capital. There are seven confirmed cases connected to the Xinfadi market, six of which are confirmed today, but their number could rise: according to the latest analyzes cited by the Global Times tabloid, out of 517 samples collected at the Xinfadi market, 46 tested positive for throat swab.
The first case of contagion in the Chinese capital, after 55 days of zero cases, dates back to last Thursday, followed by two other cases yesterday. The first patient was hospitalized in Ditan hospital: he never left the city, nor had contact with people from outside, local health authorities said today.
In addition to the lockdown imposed on residential complexes, nine schools, including elementary and nursery schools, near the Xinfadi market have been temporarily closed. In the program, said the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the municipality of the capital Xu Hejian, there are, in addition to the strengthening of the prevention and control strategies with swabs for about ten thousand people who have attended the market, the suspension of inter-tourist groups. provincial and sporting events.