Beijing shuts down largest wholesale market after six new Covid-19 cases reported
The Hindu- Business Line 13 June 2020 Beijing has shut down several markets, including the largest Xinfadi wholesale food market, and locked down 11 residential communities near it after six new domestically-transmitted coronavirus cases were reported, taking the tally to nine in the capital city in the last three days, while 12 new infections were registered in other parts of China.Officials in Beijing found the coronavirus on a chopping board of imported salmon at the Xinfadi market. China’s National Health Commission, (NHC) said on Saturday that out of the 18 new coronavirus cases, 11 were confirmed cases reported in the country on Friday, including six domestically-transmitted infections in Beijing. Also on Friday, seven new asymptomatic cases were reported, taking the total number of such people in quarantine to 98, it said. Everybody, including customers and meat dealers have undergone nucleic acid tests. In total, six major wholesale markets in Beijing s...