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2020-06-13T17:17:41.277Z


| Around the worldNew Infection Center: Beijing's Wholesale Market Cops enforce curfew in central Beijing Photo:  AFP An emergency was imposed on Beijing district last Friday, and authorities declared a ban this morning (Saturday) from the capital to and from the city, following a new outbreak of the Corona virus in the city's largest wholesale market, which closed immediately. City schools will not open the l...


New Infection Center: Beijing's Wholesale Market

  • Cops enforce curfew in central Beijing

    Photo: 

    AFP

An emergency was imposed on Beijing district last Friday, and authorities declared a ban this morning (Saturday) from the capital to and from the city, following a new outbreak of the Corona virus in the city's largest wholesale market, which closed immediately. City schools will not open the lower grades on Monday (Sunday through Tuesday).

Cho Junway, Beijing's Pangayan County Commissioner, said in a morning briefing that "the province is in emergency" after 45 of the 517 wholesale-day tests in the wholesale market returned positive to Corona, though none of the new carriers developed Symptoms of virus. Beijing City Council told Reuters agency they decided to immediately freeze inter-provincial sports and tourism events. As part of the measures to curb the new outbreak, curfew has been imposed on 11 neighborhoods in the market.

Fang Xinghu, a senior official in Beijing's local government, said "preliminary information indicates that market contagious people may have come into contact with a contaminated area in the market, or have been infected after being in contact with infected people. We cannot rule out the presence of other carriers in the area." .

Beijing's major supermarkets have taken salmon fish off the shelves after signs of the virus were found on cutting boards used for imported salmon in the wholesale market during the night. According to the Beijing authorities, they intend to conduct more than ten thousand corona tests for traders and market visitors.

Brazil has overtaken England in the number of dead

Brazil's Ministry of Health last Friday announced 909 new deaths from the Corona virus and 26,000 new carriers in the last day. In Brazil, 41,828 people have died of the virus so far, overtaking Britain, which has so far been second in the world in the number of dead after the United States. So far 828,810 carriers have been discovered in Brazil, of which 365,063 have recovered.

Source: israelhayom

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