Beijing is bracing for a second wave of coronavirus after the Chinese capital was forced to lock down residential compounds and close a large market in response to new locally transmitted coronavirus cases.
City authorities at the weekend confirmed 41 symptomatic cases and 46 without symptoms, according to a statement from the World Health Organization, many of which had links to Beijing’s largest fresh seafood and vegetable market in the western area of the city.
A city of more than 20m people, Beijing enforced some of China’s strictest travel controls at the start of the pandemic. Until the latest outbreak, the city had gone more than 50 days without a new case.