Beijing tests nearly 2.3 million people for COVID-19
Beijing has sampled a total of 2.29 million people for nucleic acid tests during its screening for COVID-19 cases between June 11 and 20. Local authorities said at a regular press conference on Saturday to brief on updates regarding the outbreak in Beijing.
According to Global Times, people who didn’t have contact with people at Beijing’s Xinfadi seafood market between May 30 and June 12 have a low risk of being infected with COVID-19.
Beijing is conducting large-scale nucleic acid testing of food delivery workers and couriers to reduce infection risks amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials at the press conference.
All residents of 40 sealed-off communities in Beijing have been asked not to leave their homes to avoid cross-infection, Zhang Qiang, an official with Beijing’s COVID19 prevention team, said at the conference.
Under 14-day collective quarantine in Beijing, medical observation can only be released if their nucleic acid test results are negative at the end of quarantine.