With 236 new cases, Beijing tackles COVID\u002D19 resurgence with staggered lockdowns
In all, 236 people have been infected in the worst outbreak in Beijing since the novel coronavirus was identified at a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan late last year.
Beijing reported on Monday nine new cases had been confirmed the previous day, sharply down from 22 a day earlier.“If you control the source, and cut the chain of transmission, the number will have a cliff-like drop,” Wu Hao, a disease control expert from the National Health Commission, told state television in an interview aired late on Sunday.
Millions of people in Beijing have had their daily lives upended by the resurgence of the disease over the past 11 days, with some fearing a city lockdown is imminent.Article content continued Chinese members of Blue Sky Rescue wear protective suits while fumigating to prevent COVID-19 at a residential compound on June 21, 2020 in Beijing, China.But Wu said Beijing was not headed for a “flood-like” lockdown, unlike early efforts in Wuhan when little was known about the virus, adding that lockdown tactics had been more targeted this time.
To control the spread of the virus, Beijing has designated four neighbourhoods as high-risk and 39 as medium-risk, as of Monday.
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