Beijing conducts mass testing to stem Covid-19 tide

Residents undergo nucleic acid tests for Covid-19 on Monday night (June 15) at a stadium in Beijing's Xicheng district. Health officials screened and tested more than 30,000 residents in the area for Covid-19 symptoms on Sunday. - China Daily/Asian News Network

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): Beijing tightened measures to cope with the new cluster of local Covid-19 (coronavirus) infections as the number of confirmed cases in the city rose to 79 from Thursday to Sunday and up to 100,000 social workers joined communities' epidemic control work.

The capital reported 36 new patients with Covid-19 on Sunday, the majority of whom worked at or had been to Xinfadi wholesale market in Beijing's southern Fengtai district. In addition to the confirmed cases, another seven are asymptomatic infections under medical observation.