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While the Chinese capital, Beijing, gradually returns to normalcy, experts noted that the work to prevent COVID-19 cannot be relaxed as the city still has many high-risk areas where Omicron flare-ups can be seen.
Beijing authorities on Saturday said the latest COVID-19 epidemic has been effectively contained after 37-day of combat against the ferocious Omicron variant. The city is gradually returning to normalcy with caution and targeted measures to tackle the risk of resurgence .
Universities are currently the focus of COVID-19 prevention and control efforts in Beijing, the capital city's officials said on Sunday, after five schools in a university town were closed following cluster infections among teachers and students.
Beijing suspended more businesses and announced more rounds of mass nucleic acid testing in 12 areas on Monday, as local health authorities said the city's daily growth of new cases remained high and the sneaky sources of infections and transmission in communities still have not been cut off.
Beijing continued to tighten control over the latest COVID-19 flare-up, after more local infections were reported in the city, in particular, a bank in Shunyi district reported cluster infections that involved 21 cases in six districts on Monday.