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Friends in Beijing confirm the main parts of this Reuters’ report. We will see if China’s strong domestic tracing, testing, and isolation of infected persons can control this Covid-19 outbreak, as it finally did the Wuhan outbreak.
Whatever one thinks of China’s authoritarian government, or of its bureaucratic bungling of the original outbreak in Wuhan, it is clear that its general epidemic control public health policies have so far proven effective within China ... even against this often asymptomatic disease. The cooperation and confidence of most Chinese with the anti-epidemic drive means China’s authoritarian one party dictatorship and XiJinping’s personal leadership will likely emerge stronger from this episode.
BEIJING (Reuters) - After weeks with almost no new coronavirus infections, Beijing has recorded dozens of new cases in recent days, all linked to a major wholesale food market, raising concerns about a resurgence of the disease.
There had been almost no new cases in the city for almost two months until an infection was reported on June 12, and since then the total number has climbed to 51, including eight more in the first seven hours of Sunday.... Contract tracing showed all the infected people had either worked or shopped inside Xinfadi, said to be the largest food market in Asia, or had been in contact with someone who was there.
“Beijing has entered an extraordinary period,” city spokesman Xu Hejian told a news conference on Sunday. The market was closed before dawn on Saturday and the district containing the market put itself on a “wartime” footing....
As of 3 p.m. on Sunday, 10 neighbourhoods in Beijing, such as Financial Street, had raised their risk levels from low to medium.
“Beijing will not turn into a second Wuhan, spreading the virus to many cities all over the country and needing a lockdown,” a government epidemic expert told Health Times on Sunday.... The outbreak will likely be controlled after the initial spike of a few days, according to the report by Health Times, a paper run by state media People’s Daily.
Like other countries around the world, China is concerned to prevent a second wave from emerging after easing lockdowns that hammered its economy earlier this year....
An epidemiologist with the Beijing government said on Sunday that a DNA sequencing of the virus showed the latest outbreak in the market could have come from Europe....
Long queues for tests formed outside a hospital near the market on Sunday, pictures in the People’s Daily showed. Beijing health authority spokesman Gao Xiaojun told the news conference on Sunday that anyone in the city with a fever will be given tests for the coronavirus, a blood test and a CT scan.
Beijing steps up coronavirus measures as dozens of cases emerge from a food market
Whatever one thinks of China’s authoritarian government, or of its bureaucratic bungling of the original outbreak in Wuhan, it is clear that its general epidemic control public health policies have so far proven effective within China ... even against this often asymptomatic disease. The cooperation and confidence of most Chinese with the anti-epidemic drive means China’s authoritarian one party dictatorship and XiJinping’s personal leadership will likely emerge stronger from this episode.
BEIJING (Reuters) - After weeks with almost no new coronavirus infections, Beijing has recorded dozens of new cases in recent days, all linked to a major wholesale food market, raising concerns about a resurgence of the disease.
There had been almost no new cases in the city for almost two months until an infection was reported on June 12, and since then the total number has climbed to 51, including eight more in the first seven hours of Sunday.... Contract tracing showed all the infected people had either worked or shopped inside Xinfadi, said to be the largest food market in Asia, or had been in contact with someone who was there.
“Beijing has entered an extraordinary period,” city spokesman Xu Hejian told a news conference on Sunday. The market was closed before dawn on Saturday and the district containing the market put itself on a “wartime” footing....
As of 3 p.m. on Sunday, 10 neighbourhoods in Beijing, such as Financial Street, had raised their risk levels from low to medium.
“Beijing will not turn into a second Wuhan, spreading the virus to many cities all over the country and needing a lockdown,” a government epidemic expert told Health Times on Sunday.... The outbreak will likely be controlled after the initial spike of a few days, according to the report by Health Times, a paper run by state media People’s Daily.
Like other countries around the world, China is concerned to prevent a second wave from emerging after easing lockdowns that hammered its economy earlier this year....
An epidemiologist with the Beijing government said on Sunday that a DNA sequencing of the virus showed the latest outbreak in the market could have come from Europe....
Long queues for tests formed outside a hospital near the market on Sunday, pictures in the People’s Daily showed. Beijing health authority spokesman Gao Xiaojun told the news conference on Sunday that anyone in the city with a fever will be given tests for the coronavirus, a blood test and a CT scan.
Beijing steps up coronavirus measures as dozens of cases emerge from a food market