BEIJING - Beijing on Tuesday urged its residents to not leave the city and closed schools again as authorities scramble to contain a "severe" new coronavirus outbreak in the city of 21 million people.
Fearing that progress could unravel, authorities locked down several residential areas and announced new restrictions on Tuesday."Anyone leaving Beijing must have a negative reading on a nucleic acid test taken within seven days ," Chen Bei, deputy secretary general of Beijing municipal government, said at a press conference.The local education commission announced that all schools, which had mostly reopened, would close again and return to online classes.
Officials in the city said they would test stall owners and managers at all of its food markets, restaurants and government canteens.Retiree Wu Yaling, 57, was in a long queue of masked people waiting in the scorching heat for tests at a park opposite one city-centre hospital. All indoor sports and entertainment venues in Beijing were ordered to shut on Monday, while some other cities across China warned they would quarantine arrivals from the capital.
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