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Photos: Beijing restores curbs as coronavirus resurfaces
Several districts of the Chinese capital, Beijing, have set up security checkpoints, closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the novel coronavirus on June 15. The decision came in after Beijing officials reported 79 cases over the past four days — the largest cluster of infections since February. The unexpected spike of cases is linked to the biggest wholesale food market in Asia- Xinfadi market.
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A medical professional speaks on two mobile phones before a mass swab test for people who visited or live near Xinfadi market at Guang’an Sport Centre in Beijing on June 14. The domestic coronavirus outbreak in China had been brought largely under control through strict lockdown restrictions imposed early this year -- but a new cluster has been linked to Xinfadi market in south Beijing now. (Noel Celis / AFP)
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Chinese paramilitary policemen wearing face masks walk past the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing. Several districts of the Chinese capital have set up security checkpoints, closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the novel coronavirus on June 15 after an unexpected spike of cases linked to the biggest wholesale food market in Asia. (Noel Celis / AFP)
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A security personnel checks the temperature of people entering the Xinfadi market on June 14. After nearly two months with no new infections, Beijing officials have reported 79 cases over the past four days, the city’s biggest cluster of infections since February, reported Reuters. (Noel Celis / AFP)
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Medical professionals wearing protective suits gather at the Guang’an Sport Centre before a mass swab test for people who visited or live near Xinfadi market . A complex of warehouses and trading halls, Xinfadi is more than 20 times larger than the seafood market in the city of Wuhan, where the outbreak was first identified. (Noel Celis / AFP)
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A man, who visited Beijing recently, gets tested for the COVID-19 infection in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on June 15. Governments in other parts of China warned residents against non-essential travel to the capital, and implemented isolation protocols for some visitors from Beijing. (STR / AFP / China OUT)
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Travellers wearing face masks are seen at Beijing Capital International Airport on June 15. According to a Reuters report, an epidemiologist with the Beijing government said on June 14 that a DNA sequencing of the virus showed the Xinfadi outbreak could have come from Europe. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins / REUTERS)
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A man holds a placard as people who visited or live near Xinfadi market queue for a swab test at Guang’an Sport Centre. Beijing began mass testing on June 14, with tens of thousands of checks. Results from the first 6,075 were negative, Gao Xiaojun from the Beijing public health commission told Reuters. (Noel Celis / AFP)
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