The Beijing government has tested more than 11 million people for COVID-19 since June 11.
Beijing, China:
Beijing reported on Tuesday no new cases of coronavirus for the first time since the emergence of a cluster in the Chinese capital in June, which raised fears of a second domestic wave.
A total of 335 people have been infected since the emergence of a cluster on the huge Xinfadi wholesale market in early June.
The Beijing health commission said on Tuesday that it had detected only one asymptomatic case the day before, which China is not including in its confirmed counts.
While Chinese authorities are still investigating the cause of the latest outbreak, the virus has been detected on cutting boards used to handle imported salmon on the Xinfadi market, which has resulted in a ban on certain imports and increased control foreign food suppliers.
The Beijing government has tested more than 11 million people for COVID-19 since June 11 – about half the city’s population, officials said at a press conference on Monday.
Residents lined up in the summer heat at test sites across the city in June, with hundreds of thousands of samples taken daily.
Closures located across the city have been eased in recent days, with people living in areas of the city considered “low risk” now being allowed to travel freely again.
Beijing’s epidemic is “stabilizing and improving,” Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the city’s disease control center, told reporters on Monday.
China had largely brought the deadly epidemic under control before the new Beijing cluster was detected last month.
Since then, the government has also imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in neighboring Hebei province to contain a new cluster, adopting the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the epicenter of Wuhan City earlier this year.
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