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, with group sports banned, people ordered to wear masks in crowded enclosed spaces, and inter-provincial group tours suspended."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 epidemic situation in the capital is extremely severe," Beijing city spokesman Xu Hejian warned at a press conference.They took the number of confirmed infections in Beijing over the past five days to 106, as authorities locked down almost 30 communities in the city and tested tens of thousands of people.Officials in the city said they would test stall owners and managers at all of its food markets, restaurants and government canteens.
Companies were told to encourage flexible work arrangements such as teleworking, while libraries, museums, art galleries and parks must now limit capacity to 30 percent.
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