Exscript from video: Beijing City Officials Discussing Policies After the Discovery of New Corona Virus Cases linked to a Large Wholesale Market
Various of News Conferences at Progress
Acting District Chief, Fengtai District, Beijing City, Chu Junwei, saying:
"We are implementing closed management policies on 11 residential compounds that lie near to the (Xinfadi) market and will have 24 hour security coverage at each location. Also, at three primary schools and six kindergartens in the surrounding area, classes will be stopped for all pupils who had begun returning to class. For classes that had not re-started, their re-opening will be pushed back."
Various School Pupils going through Temperature Checking Zone
Deputy director, Beijing Center for Disease Prevention & Control Pang Xinghou, saying:
"These coronavirus cases (in Beijing) have perhaps come in contact with a polluted environment in the market or have come into contact with someone who was infected who then passed on the virus to them so they had it. For this reason, shutting down Xinfadi agricultural trading market is completely necessary. The relevant tracing work is still underway."
China reported 57 new confirmed COVID-19 cases for June 13, the highest since April 13, according to data released by the national health authority on Sunday (June 14).
The National Health Commission said in a statement that 38 of the new confirmed cases were locally transmitted, with 36 of them in Beijing. This is the highest daily infection count for China's capital since authorities started releasing data.
Beijing recorded a jump in new confirmed cases, up from six a day earlier, after it started doing mass-testing at the Xinfadi wholesale market in the city's southwestern Fengtai district. Fengtai district has put itself on a "wartime" footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday (June 13) sparking fears of a new wave of COVID-19.
Local officials said on Saturday that several of the recently confirmed cases had visited the vast Xinfadi market thus the market would be closed, residential compounds in the surrounding area would re-introduce closed management policies of restricting visitors and checking temperatures and nearby schools and kindergartens would be closed once again.
China now has 83,132 cases of COVID-19 with the death toll at 4,634.
(c) Reuters, CCTV
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