Packages and mail left outside a Beijing residential compound on June 19,2020. Reports say that all couriers in Beijing will be tested by next week. - AFP
BEIJING (Reuters): Officials in Beijing are carrying out tests to detect traces of coronavirus on all food and parcel delivery workers in an effort to rein in a new outbreak, state-backed media reported on Saturday (June 20).
Officials in the Chinese capital have been expanding nucleic acid testing across the city of 20 million since a cluster of infections linked to a food wholesale market erupted just over a week ago.
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