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Seven identified cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection were identified with the Sinfadi market, six of which were confirmed on Saturday, authorities said. The services closed nine surrounding schools and kindergartens.
Residents of the quarantine area where quarantine has been declared must be kept isolated and have no right to leave their homes. Local authorities organize their food supply and basic needs through volunteers.
During a press conference organized by the Beijing authorities, it was reported that a coronavirus infection was detected on Thursday in one of the people leaving the capital. This is the first new case of COVID-19 in Beijing in the past two months. The person reportedly visited the Sinfaji meat market last week and has not recently left the capital.
The XinJin Bao newspaper reported on Saturday that the 10,000 COPID-19 tests will be carried out by Sinfadi market personnel.
Recurrent anxiety
After the first detection of COVID-19 in the central city of Wuhan late last year, the Chinese authorities took strict large-scale quarantine measures and largely controlled the outbreak in the country.
As the number of cases decreased, most of these measures were repealed. Most of the new infections in recent months have been from citizens living abroad who were examined during the pandemic when they returned home.
Among the six new local infections announced on Saturday are three Sinfaji market workers, a person who visited him and two workers at the China Meat Research Center, seven kilometers away. One of the latter visited the market last week.
Authorities closed the Sinfaji Market on Friday for disinfection and sampling, as well as the Gengshen Seafood Market in Fengtai District, which was visited by one of the sick.
Reporters from the AFP news agency saw hundreds of police and large paramilitary police forces arrive at the two markets. Workers were seen taking several boxes of shellfish from the Dzingchen market.
Fengtai officials announced on Saturday that a “military situation” had been introduced in the area and that a “military field operations center” had been established to combat a new wave of the virus.
Nine nearby schools and kindergartens were closed. On Friday, Beijing officials across the city postponed the students’ return to primary schools, canceling all sporting events and group dinners. Tourist travel between the provinces was suspended on Saturday.
Mass tests
The president of the Sinfadi bulk meat market told the state newspaper Beijing News that the virus had been detected on cutting boards used to process imported salmon. This has raised concerns about hygiene in Beijing’s food supply sector.
Beijing market regulators have ordered a city-wide food safety inspection, focusing on fresh and frozen meat, poultry and fish in supermarkets, warehouses and catering establishments.
Another state newspaper, the Beijing Daily, reported on Saturday that the capital’s main supermarkets, including Wumart and Carrefour, had removed all stocks of salmon overnight, but other products were delivered as usual.
According to AFP reporters, some Beijing restaurants completely removed salmon from the menu on Saturday.
Beijing authorities also announced that the COVID-19 tests will be carried out on anyone who has visited the Sinfadi market since May 30 or who has had close contact with those who were there.
More than 5,000 were investigated on Friday. samples of farmers markets and large supermarkets throughout the city. The 40 positive samples came from the Sinfaji market.
On Friday, tests were also conducted on nearly 2,000. Beijing wholesale market workers.
Among tests already done, smear test results performed on staff from 46 other markets were positive, but have not yet developed any symptoms of the disease. All of them are closely monitored by doctors.
Only one of these people does not work in the Sinfaji market. He works at a farmers’ market in the Haidian district in northwest Beijing, but had close contact with one of the infected people associated with the Sinfaji market.
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