Police stand guard outside an entrance to the Xinfadi wholesale market district in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: AP
Beijing district on ‘wartime’ alert after fresh coronavirus outbreak
- City’s biggest fruit and vegetable market shut down and nearby residential compounds put in lockdown amid seven new symptomatic cases in three days
- Dozens of others linked to the market tested positive but showed no signs of the disease, authorities say
Police stand guard outside an entrance to the Xinfadi wholesale market district in Beijing on Saturday. Photo: AP