Breaking |Beijing: 45 tested positive among 517 in a market
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BEIJING, June 13 (TMTPOST) Beijing municipal and district disease
prevention officials have proactively conducted a massive coronavirus
tests after collecting 5,424 seafood, meat and other samples from food
markets，according to the municipal government.
Among 517 samples collected in Xinfadi market in Beijing, 45 were tested positive for the COVID19 in throat swabs.
The results show that the samples from Xinfadi Seafood Market tested positive while those from other markets tested negative. Xinfadi Seafood Market, located between the Fourth Ring and the Fifth Ring, supplies about 80% of seafood and meat to Beijing dinner tables.
The officials also picked 1,940 vendors for nucleic acid testing and 46 tested positive on Saturday. 45 vendors came from Xinfadi Seafood Market and one from a food market in Haidian District. The sheer number of new infections in a day in Beijing is striking.
Meanwhile, the Beijing government reported four new COVID-19 cases on Saturday and all of them were linked to the market.
The
four patients, aged from 27 to 50, worked or visited the Xinfadi
Seafood Market, which was referred to by some as Beijing’s Huanan
Market, which some of the first coronavirus cases had links to. They
visited three different hospitals on Thursday and Friday and were
diagnosed as COVID-19 by Friday.
Virus Detected from Sample of a Chopping Board
On Friday, the novel coronavirus was detected on the salmon chopping board at Xinfadi Seafood Market, following a patient’s disclosure of a visit to that market on June 3.
The patient from Xicheng District tested positive on Thursday, marking the first domestically transmitted case in eight weeks and raising concerns of a second wave of infections in Beijing.
Zhang Yuxi, the Chairman of the market, said that the virus was found in sample tests and the salmon originated in Jingshen Seafood Market.
Zhang said he received the testing results on Friday morning, adding that nine merchants who had contact with the chopping board tested negative for the time being and were placed in isolation.
He stressed that samples from beef, lamb, pork, vegetables and fruits for sale in the market and related facilities tested negative.
Also on Friday, two new locally transmitted infections were reported in Beijing.
On Friday night, the Beijing Market Supervision and Administration Bureau issued a notice, requiring a thorough inspection on food markets following the emergence of two new coronavirus infections in the day.
Live seafood markets, frozen meat and seafood wholesale markets (including refrigerated storage facilities), supermarkets, convenient stores, grocery stories and restaurants that use lots of meat and sea food were listed as key spots for the inspection, according to the website of the municipal government agency.
On Friday night, major supermarkets in Beijing, including CSF Market and Wumart, took salmon products off the shelf.
Beijing's Fengtai launches wartime-like measures to curb COVID-19
Fengtai District in Beijing has launched
wartime-like control measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, local
authorities said at a press conference on Saturday.
The district
also set up a command center to guide efforts. The move came after
coronavirus was detected at Xinfadi wholesale market in the district.
Eleven
residential communities around the market have been closed off, said
the authorities. Three primary schools and six kindergartens were also
closed in the area.
The Beijing authorities also suspended group
tours and sports events. The local health authorities also warned of the
rise of new cases.
45 throat swabs from Xinfadi market test positive for COVID-19
Beijing
registered four new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases from 4:00
p.m. to midnight local time on Friday, all related to the Xinfadi
wholesale market, a local official announced on Saturday.
Forty-five throat swabs and 40 samples from the market's surroundings tested positive, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the municipal center for disease prevention and control, said at a press briefing.
Beijing to conduct nucleic acid tests on close contacts with Xinfadi market
Beijing
will conduct nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 on people who were in
close contact with the Xinfadi wholesale market since May 30, a local
official announced on Saturday.
So far, 139 close contacts of the
new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Fengtai District have been tracked, and
all of them have been put under quarantine, officials outlined.
According to the current situation of the epidemic in Beijing, the catering services citywide have tightened epidemic control measures, local media reported on Saturday.
On Friday night, the Beijing authorities summoned relevant officials from the capital city's Fengtai District, underscoring the importance of the implementation of the normalized measures of epidemic control and prevention.
Cai Qi, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Chen Jining, the mayor of Beijing, summoned the officials following a meeting regarding the municipal epidemic control and prevention measures, urging them to take serious actions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Xinfadi wholesale market should be taken as a focal point in the epidemiological investigation of the new COVID-19 cases, Cai noted, adding that a work team will be sent to the market to make sure the situation is well under control.
Beijing, on Saturday, announced that another 31 medical institutions are now allowed to conduct coronavirus nucleic acid testing for groups and individuals.
Now, the Chinese capital has the capacity to test more than 90,000 people per day for coronavirus, with a total of 98 health facilities providing such services.
Operations at Xinfadi Long-distance Bus Station have been suspended on
Saturday following the positive coronavirus tests at Xinfadi market
which is around two kilometers away.
On the same day, traffic controls were tightened on the Beijing-Kaifeng Expressway to inspect outbound vehicles.
Beijing suspends class resumption after new COVID-19 cases
Beijing on Friday suspended the resuming of classes for primary schools' lower graders after three new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the capital city over the past two days.
According to the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, the decision was made in line with the changing situation of the city's epidemic prevention and control.
Around 520,000 students in the first, second and third grades in Beijing's primary schools were scheduled to return to campus on June 15, the commission said on Tuesday.
Schoolmates test negative after fourth-grader's father diagnosed with COVID-19 in Beijing
Teachers wait for returning students at Yangfangdian central primary school in Haidian District of Beijing, capital of China, June 8, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
BEIJING, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Students and teachers have tested negative in a Beijing primary school after the father of a fourth-grader was confirmed to be diagnosed with COVID-19, authorities said.
These people were on the same floor with the child of the patient in Yumin primary school, according to the Xicheng district government of Beijing.
Two close contacts tested negative in nucleic acid and antibody testing after the case was reported in Xicheng District on Thursday, including the student from the school.
File Photo: China News Service
Beijing on Friday suspended the class resumption for primary schools' first to third graders after three new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the capital city over the past two days.
Higher-grade
students who have returned to school will continue classes, and
teaching arrangements will be adjusted according to the epidemic
prevention and control situation in Beijing, according to the Beijing
municipal commission of education.
Source(s): CGTN; Xinhua News Agency;Global Times
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