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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 identified 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.
According to Bloomberg, officials go to Beijing’s residential complexes, knock on residents’ doors and ask if they visited the city’s largest fruit and vegetable market, Sinfadi, or if they had contact with those who were in the market.
A new coronavirus outbreak is believed to have started in Sinfadi.
In the Sicheng district, where the first case of a new outbreak was detected, people gathered last weekend at a sports stadium converted into a research center.
Infection cases have already been registered in another market. More than 20 residential complexes were isolated throughout the city over the weekend.
There are no lessons for first through third grade students in elementary schools, and students are encouraged to study at home. Some companies have instructed their employees to work from home. Security controls at residential complexes have been strengthened, swimming pools have been closed.
“The risk of spreading the virus is very high, so firm and decisive measures are needed to prevent it,” Deputy Prime Minister Sun Chunlan said at a meeting of the State Council on Sunday, citing state media.
The outbreak closed the meat section of the large market. Reporters from the AFP news agency reported seeing hundreds of policemen sent to the market, many of whom were wearing masks and gloves, as well as dozens of paramilitary police.
Attempts are currently being made to locate all who have visited this market.
The concern about the new wave of the virus is caused by the fact that the coronavirus spread mainly from a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The recent outbreak has raised the issue of hygiene in the food supply chain again.
State media reports that the virus was found on cutting boards on which salmon was processed. As a result, large retail chains have removed salmon from circulation.
Beijing authorities also ordered the inspection of fresh and frozen meat, poultry and fish in supermarkets, warehouses and catering establishments across the city. “People are scared,” said a merchant selling tomatoes and cherries to an AFP agency in a central city market.
“There are likely to be more infections in the city in the coming days, and the quarantine will be introduced across the city for a few weeks,” said Ben Cowling, head of the Department of Epidemiology and Statistics at the University of Hong Kong. “Quarantines in China can be very effective in keeping people out of their homes, while providing them with enough food and other necessities.”
Last Friday, market director Zhang Jusi said the virus had been detected on a cutting board used by an imported salmon vendor, but the origin of the new source is still unclear.
Judging by the virus’s genome, its source is Europe, writes Bloomberg.
A new outbreak of the virus could come from shellfish or infected meat that was brought to China, said Yang Peng, a researcher at the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control (LPKC), on Sunday.
Vu Dzunjou, senior advisor to the Chinese LPKC, advised the people of Beijing not to buy imported agricultural products or frozen products. According to him, the virus can remain on the surface of frozen products for up to three months. The agency suspects that the source of the latest outbreak is infected property.
Last Saturday, the market, which is 80 percent. Agricultural products are supplied to the population of Beijing, closed by disinfection, and some 10,000 merchants and workers were surveyed. In Beijing’s financial district, where China’s largest banks and financial companies are located, as well as several other districts, the level of risk has increased from low to medium.
He fired the deputy director of the district where the large market operates and the chief director of the market.
“Although I live quite a distance from the market, I am panicking,” said a 26-year-old Beijing resident, an intellectual property analyst. Cathy Liu. – For the unknown [viruso] the origins become even more restless. We cannot rule out the possibility of a major outbreak in Beijing. “
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