Fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections rise in China as Beijing battles new cluster
Fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections struck China’s capital city as a new cluster was discovered over the weekend, centered around a massive seafood, meat and produce market in the southern Fengtai district of Beijing.
How the new patients became infected remains unclear. But Chinese authorities have zeroed in on the new cases’ shared links to Xinfadi market, a sprawling wholesale market that supplies more than 70% of Beijing’s fruits and vegetables, according to local news reports. The market also includes wholesale sections dedicated to beef, lamb and seafood.Two of the newly infected people were employees at the China Meat Research Center, a food research institute in the same district.
Police stand guard outside an entrance to the Xinfadi wholesale food market district in Beijing on Saturday. Beijing had finally relaxed its restrictions this month after the postponed Two Sessions, China’s most important annual political meetings, took place in late May. Three thousand delegates from across the nation were tested and isolated before they could attend, while the few journalists permitted entry could only do so after they had received negative results from same-day COVID-19 tests.
Those restrictions are now tightening again. Guards blocked shoppers from entering a popular shopping mall Saturday afternoon, insisting they display green QR codes proving their health status.Advertisement Yang Peng, an expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, said in an interview with state channel CCTV on Sunday evening that a whole-genome test of the newly found virus infections indicated that they came “from the direction of Europe.”
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