2020-12-28 12:35:33 GMT2020-12-28 20:35:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) Less than a week away from the New Year holiday, sporadic COVID-19 cases have resurfaced in China s capital of Beijing as well as northeast Liaoning Province and the southern high-tech hub of Shenzhen, prompting authorities to tighten up epidemic control measures.
In the past 14 days, Beijing has reported a total of nine locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases. Three urban districts in the capital city have conducted large-scale nucleic acid tests in key places where the cases were traced.
Five confirmed COVID-19 cases and an asymptomatic case reported in Beijing on Saturday all appeared in Shunyi District. Four of them work in an industrial park and one is a staff member of a supermarket in the district. The 40-year-old asymptomatic case is a taxi driver living in the district.