The capital was among the strictest and last to relax COVID-19 restrictions in China. Now it has returned to 'wartime mode' as dozens of local infections are found, all linked to a wholesale seafood, meat and produce market.
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 fruit 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.
Major supermarkets across Beijing pulled salmon off their shelves overnight. Some restaurants refused to sell items with salmon Saturday morning. The city 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 had been required to be tested and quarantined in order to attend, while the few journalists permitted entry could only do so after they received negative results from same-day COVID-19 tests.
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