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Community workers deliver packages to quarantined residents of Shunyi District, Beijing, May 10, 2022. [Foto: Wu Yibin/ China Daily]
By Du Juan
As the latest outbreak in the Chinese capital continues its upward trend, Beijing will strictly follow the dynamic zero COVID-19 policy by taking prompt and targeted measures to contain the epidemic, said Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. from Beijing.
The capital reported 59 new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 in the 24 hours since Monday afternoon, bringing the total number of infections to 836, counted since April 22. Currently, the capital has 15 districts involved.
In recent days, the daily average of locally transmitted infections hovers around 50 people. A new cluster of workplace infections was discovered on Tuesday in the Fangshan district. On Monday, more than 20 people working at a Shunyi data center tested positive.
“Within the next 24 hours, in order to quickly win the fight against the virus, Beijing will stick to the principle of dealing with the new epidemic situation,” said Xu Hejian, spokesman for the Beijing government. To achieve this, massive rounds of nucleic acid tests have been organized and the service has been perfected to ensure successful operation and avoid crowds that could create risks of infection.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Beijing had 21 high-risk COVID-19 areas and 34 medium-risk areas.
In addition, two new groups have been reported in confirmed discovered workplaces on Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday, Beijing reported a cluster of COVID-19 discovered in a Beijing Rural Commercial Bank data center in Shunyi District. Already on Tuesday afternoon, the number of infections in the group had risen to 28, of which 24 were employees and the rest were family members.
“This cluster has a large scale, and the confirmed cases visited a wide range of places in the city, involving seven counties, including Shunyi, Haidian, Fengtai, Chaoyang, Tongzhou, Changping and Xicheng,” Pan said.
“It is expected that in the near future the contagion of this group will continue to increase, although the situation is under control and since strong prevention measures have been taken,” he said.
Zhang Yanlin, deputy director of Shunyi, said the district has identified 1,897 close contacts and 1,646 potential contacts related to the new cases in this cluster.
“All the contacts who are in Shunyi have been transferred to the centralized quarantine, and the information of those who are not in Shunyi has been handed over to authorities in other districts.” In addition, the 103 places with risks of infection have already been disinfected,” Zhang added.
So far, 13 residential communities have been designated as controlled zones and 37 communities as precautionary zones.
From Tuesday to Thursday, Shunyi will conduct three consecutive massive nucleic acid tests.
Asimiso, this Tuesday another focus was reported in the Fangshan district, which involves a subway renovation project: 14 employees have been confirmed positive.
Zhang Mingzhi, a spokesman for the Fangshan district, stressed that all 48 employees working on the project have been quarantined and prevention and control measures, including nucleic acid tests, have already been strengthened.
(Web editor: Wu Sixuan, Zhao Jian)
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