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Coronavirus latest: Fresh cluster prompts partial Beijing lockdown
Deutsche Welle ^ | 06.13.2020 | dvv/stb (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)

Posted on 06/12/2020 10:31:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Eleven residential estates in south Beijing have been locked down due to a fresh cluster of coronavirus cases linked to a nearby meat market, local officials said on Saturday.

Forty-five out of 517 samples so far collected from merchants and employees at the Xinfadi meat market have tested positive for the virus, according to the People's Daily.

Xinfadi, which has 4,000 tenants, was ordered shut to be disinfected after the virus was found in the environment, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The chairman of the wholesale market told state-run Beijing News that the virus was detected on chopping boards used to handle imported salmon. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: beijing; coronavirus; covid19; wuhanvirus

1 posted on 06/12/2020 10:31:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
>>have been locked down due to a fresh cluster of coronavirus cases linked to a nearby meat market, local officials said on Saturday.


2 posted on 06/12/2020 10:36:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Olog-hai

Meat market again?
Something stinks.


3 posted on 06/12/2020 10:38:00 PM PDT by map
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I wonder how many of the 1.5 billion Chinese are infected? The CCP likely doesn’t care much about most of them, but in Beijing? Unacceptable.


4 posted on 06/12/2020 10:44:05 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: a fool in paradise

It wouldn’t be hard to be a vegetarian in China.


5 posted on 06/12/2020 11:04:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Olog-hai

Is this the strain of COVID-19 that is supposed to hit America in October-November?


6 posted on 06/12/2020 11:05:02 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

You’d still be hungry an hour later


7 posted on 06/12/2020 11:13:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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CCP ass kissing Reuters. Carry water for their pay masters


8 posted on 06/12/2020 11:19:41 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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The virus is going everywhere. You can run but you can’t hide from it.


9 posted on 06/12/2020 11:23:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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