Disinfection teams in the Yuegezhuang wholesale market. Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images Disinfection teams in the Yuegezhuang wholesale market. Image: Xinhua News Agency/PA Images BEIJING HAS 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, with group sports banned, people ordered to wear masks in crowded enclosed spaces, and inter-provincial group tours suspended. The local education commission announced that all schools, which had mostly reopened, would close again and return to online classes. Universities were told to suspend the return of students.
The capital’s transport commission banned taxi- and ride-hailing services from carrying passengers out of the city, Xinhua said. Authorities also reported four new domestic infections in neighbouring Hebei province, while a case reported in Sichuan province was linked to the Beijing cluster.
If the journal is reporting 27 cases in Beijing as 'extremely severe' what would be the appropriate headline to describe the newly reported cases here?