China‘s National Health Commission announced on Monday that it registered 12 new Coronavirus cases, 7 of them in Beijing, during the past 24 hours.
Earlier, Beijing announced the imposition of quarantine on 10 other districts in the Chinese capital, as it recorded dozens of new cases in recent days, according to “Sky News.”
An official in Beijing said that a district in the Chinese capital is on “wartime” emergency after the number of Coronavirus cases have risen due to a wholesale market there, Reuters reported.
“Testing involving 517 people in the Xinfadi market in the region showed that 45 of them were infected with the virus,” said a Chinese official.
“Beijing will immediately suspend sporting events and inter-regional tourism,” another official revealed.
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