Infection from Beijing spreads to Shandong, Shaanxi and Hebei
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(Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Jin-bang = Amid a cluster infection in Beijing, the host city of Beijing, ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics, the Chinese quarantine authorities started a large-scale nucleic acid test for Beijing residents.
According to the Beijing Corona 19 Prevention and Control Center on the 24th, the city of Beijing started nucleic acid testing for 2 million residents of Fengtai District, where the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 25 since the previous day.
In addition to Fengtai District, Beijing began large-scale nucleic acid testing by sending 4,600 quarantine agents to 10 districts, including Chaoyang, City Hall, Dongcheng, and Haidian, where confirmed cases were reported. .
Beijing is making every effort to break the chain of cluster infections while conducting sample surveys focusing on areas that overlap with the movement of confirmed cases.
The cluster infection that started in Beijing has now been confirmed to have spread to three provinces: Shandong, Shanxi, and Hebei.
In Hebei, three confirmed cases were confirmed the day before, and all of them were confirmed as returning travelers from Beijing’s Fengtai District.
There were two confirmed cases and one asymptomatic case in Shandong, all of which were found to have been in close contact with a confirmed case in Beijing.
In Datong, Shaanxi, one returning visitor from Beijing on the 22nd was also confirmed.
Beijing City said, “Most of the confirmed cases that have spread to areas other than Beijing are related to the cold chain (the process of refrigeration of food). explained.
In Beijing, six more confirmed cases and two asymptomatic cases were reported the day before. Accordingly, from the 15th to the previous day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Beijing increased to 40.
Beijing is gradually strengthening its quarantine level as the spread continues after the mass infection began on the 15th.
Beijing Municipal authorities have notified people who have been prescribed medication for four symptoms: cough, fever, inflammation and sore throat to undergo a nucleic acid test within 72 hours.
Beijing’s Jingkai District also banned gatherings of more than 10 people and recommended refraining from going out and returning home for the Lunar New Year.
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