“I went to Xinfadi market so I want to confirm that I am not infected.”
Beijing carried out mass testing for the coronavirus on Sunday after a new outbreak in the city that prompted travel warnings across the country amid fears of a resurgence of the disease.
The National Health Commission reported 57 new infections on Sunday, of which 36 were local transmissions in Beijing, all linked to the Xinfadi market. In the capital, lockdowns have been imposed on a very small part of the city that includes 11 residential estates near the market which supplies most of the city’s fresh produce.
One of Sunday’s new cases was a 56-year-old man who works as an airport bus driver and had visited the Xinfadi market in early June before later falling ill, state-run People’s Daily reported. A vegetable market adjacent to Xinfadi was open Sunday and trucks were arriving to deliver or collect stock.“But anyway I have no choice — I am part of the lowest class of society. So I have to keep working in order to make a living.”Some people used a wooden stepladder propped against the gated entrance to one community to pass supplies to loved ones.
The latest outbreak in Beijing has turned the spotlight on the hygiene of the city’s food supply chain.
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