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Published 14 Jun, 2020 08:50am

Beijing areas locked down after new cases emerge

People have been ordered to stay home at 11 residential estates in south Beijing’s Fengtai district and the nearby Xinfadi market has been closed as authorities race to contain the outbreak that has fuelled fears of resurgence in local transmission.

Most of the six new domestic infections reported on Saturday were linked to the meat and vegetable market, health officials said, which provides much of the capital’s food supply.

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