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In China, 67 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in the last day, and a difficult situation arose in Beijing, the Health Protection Committee said.
Of all the active cases, 10 are “imported” and the remaining 39 are registered in the country: 36 in Beijing and three in Hubei province. No patients died.
During the previous day, 66 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in the country: 57 active and nine asymptomatic.
Since December last year, coronavir has claimed 4,634 victims in China, with 83,181 cases of infection, of which 1,837 were imported.
No new cases have been reported in areas outside of mainland China. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 1,597 COVID-19 patients have been registered there: 1,109 in Hong Kong (four deaths) and 45 in Macao.
In Beijing, 36 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded for the second consecutive day after a long break. The former settled in a market in the capital’s Fengtai district. Zhou Yuqing, deputy district director, was fired for failing to prevent a new outbreak.
According to Beijing health officials, “the situation in preventing and controlling the outbreak of the disease remains extremely difficult.”
They called for “identifying the source of the infection as soon as possible, effectively blocking the spread of the infection and resolutely stopping the spread of the epidemic.”
On Monday, the services announced that quarantine was being introduced in more than a dozen other districts in Beijing to stop the outbreak of COVID-19 linked to the food market.
City official Li Junjie told a press conference that new cases of COVID-19 were detected in the second wholesale market in northwest Haidian, which will close the market and nearby schools and quarantine communities. neighbors.
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