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- There are only 820 people with Covid-19 hospitalized in intensive care in France. The drop still continues, even almost five weeks after the start of deconfinement.
- But it is towards China, the first center of the epidemic, that eyes are turned on when again around thirty districts of Beijing are reconfigured after the discovery of a hundred cases.
- More than 8.1 million cases have been detected worldwide since the onset of the crisis and the trend is always upward of new cases every day.
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7:35 am: Transport largely closed from Beijing
The two Beijing airports canceled more than a thousand flights on Wednesday after a rebound of Covid-19 cases in the Chinese capital, official media said. At 9:10 a.m. local time (1:10 a.m. GMT), 1,255 flights to and from Beijing airports had been cut, 70% of those originally planned, The People's Daily and China Daily reported .
Beijing on Tuesday urged its 21 million residents to avoid "non-essential" travel outside the city and ordered a new school closure after a rebound in Covid-19 cases in the Chinese capital. Several cities and provinces now impose a quarantine on arrival for travelers from the Chinese capital. Train users who have booked tickets to or from Beijing can be reimbursed free of charge, said the People's Daily.
7:24 am: 137 cases in Beijing in a few days
The city of Beijing has registered 31 new infections with the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the city hall announced on Wednesday, an overall figure stable for the fourth consecutive day. Authorities in the Chinese capital have launched a giant tracing campaign following the discovery of a renewed contagion at the end of last week in a wholesale market in the south of the metropolis, Xinfadi.
The city has increased its screening capacity to more than 90,000 per day. She called on residents on Tuesday to avoid "non-essential" travel outside of Beijing, and again ordered the closure of schools and colleges. Thirty residential areas, out of the thousands in the capital, have been placed in quarantine. The assessment of 31 cases of contamination brings to 137 the total number of people affected by Covid-19 since the discovery of the new epidemic focus on Friday.
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