Several neighborhoods in the Chinese capital, Beijing, deployed checkpoints, closed schools, and ordered residents to undergo detection tests for the emerging Corona virus (COFED-19) yesterday, after an unexpected jump in the number of HIV infections linked to the largest wholesale food market in Asia.
"The risk of the epidemic spreading is very high, so we must take firm and decisive action," Beijing city government spokesman Xu Heijiang told a press conference yesterday.
After nearly two months without any new infections reported, Beijing officials announced 79 injuries in just four days, the largest concentration of infection since February.
The origin of the new outbreak has been identified in the Shinfadi market, where the sale and purchase movement includes thousands of tons of vegetables, fruits, and meat every day. Wuhan, where the SK virus appeared.
The emergence of new cases has prompted officials in many areas of the city to re-enforce strict measures to prevent the spread of the virus, and the measures include the deployment of security checkpoints around the clock, the closure of schools and sports facilities, and a return to check the temperatures of visitors to shopping centers, stores and administrative offices.
Some neighborhoods have sent officials to apartment complexes to knock on doors and identify those who have recently visited the market, or have been in contact with those who have visited.
Agence France-Presse reporters saw dozens of people queuing for tests at a sports stadium yesterday morning, amid tight protection from people wearing uniforms, and the authorities intensified their efforts to track down people who visited the Shenfady market, as companies sent text messages to employees and residents to ask them about Their last moves.
Beijing has begun mass checks of tens of thousands of residents, and a spokesman for the city's Public Health Committee, Gao Xiaojun, said that samples had been collected from 8,950 people who had been in Xinfadi recently.
The World Health Organization announced the day before yesterday that it had been informed of the outbreak and the fact that Chinese officials had conducted an investigation into the matter, adding in a statement that it was aware that the genetic sequences would be revealed as soon as possible once the completion of further laboratory analysis.
Health officials announced that 49 new cases of the new Corona virus had been recorded in China yesterday, including 36 cases in the capital, Beijing.
There are currently 177 people with the disease in China - two of them seriously ill - the highest rate since early May.
In addition to the new cases that were counted in Beijing, the Chinese National Health Commission said there were three confirmed cases in Hubei Province.
China had entered the stage of recovery from the epidemic that emerged at the end of last year in Wuhan (center), using measures ranging from the application of protective masks, to the approval of closure and isolation, but the discovery of new injuries in the food market, raised widespread concern, and strengthened the possibility of the return of restrictions Strict.
Rigorous measures to prevent the spread of the virus ... and the authorities are intensifying their efforts to track down Shenfadi market visitors.