This archive report was first published on 13 June 2020.
On Saturday, Beijing closed the Xinfadi market, its largest wholesale food market, after seven coronavirus cases were discovered in the previous two days.
The market, which has 4,000 tenants, will be disinfected after workers tested positive for the virus and it was found in the environment, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
On Friday, the National Health Commission confirmed six new cases in Beijing, with another case reported on Thursday. These cases marked the first locally transmitted cases in the Chinese capital in over 50 days.
Attention focused on the market after the discovery of the first three cases, with two of the infected people having visited the market and the third working with one of them at a meat research institute, according to Chinese media reports.
City officials ordered the testing of all workers at the market, as well as food and environmental samples from all of Beijing's wholesale food markets, on Friday.
Published on June 13, 2020.
