An update on how Beijing is dealing with the renewed COVID-19 outbreak
- Beijing has reported over 100 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases in the past five days
- following an outbreak at Xinfadi, the city's largest wholesale food market
The alert level for the city has been raised to '2' (from 3, the highest level is 1)
- more residential compounds have been locked down
- more than 30,000 restaurants will be disinfected
- Other public facilities (eg. museums, galleries and parks) can only run at 30% of maximum capacity
- outbound travel restricitons tightened (residents living in medium or high risk areas, as well as people connected to the market, are banned from leaving the city)
- school closures also
