FILE PHOTO: People in facial masks are seen in the Sanlitun shopping area after the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China, on July 1, 2020. REUTERS / Tingshu Wang
BEIJING (Reuters) – China registered eight new coronavirus cases for July 4, up from three the day before, the national health authority said on Sunday, while Beijing city authorities said almost all cases in a recent outbreak in the capital they were mild. .
Of the new cases, six were imported and two in Beijing, which has been struggling to quell an outbreak attributed to a massive wholesale market in the city early last month.
In Beijing, 47% of the 334 confirmed cases since June 11 were employees of the Xinfadi market, Pang Xinghuo, a senior Beijing disease control official, said at a press conference on Sunday.
Of all the cases in the city since then, 98% were “mild and normal,” he said.
Xu Hejian, a spokesman for the capital city, said at the briefing that the new coronavirus situation in Beijing was “stabilizing” and “controllable”, but transmission risks remain.
Also on Sunday, China reported seven new asymptomatic patients, compared to four the day before.
As of Saturday, mainland China had 83,553 confirmed cases of coronavirus, the health authority said. The death toll in China from COVID-19 remained at 4,634, unchanged from mid-May.
Reports by Min Zhang and Tony Munroe; Editing by William Mallard
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