translated from Spanish: In Pekin close wholesale market by covid-19 re-opening

China–China has announced the closure of Xinfadi, Beijing’s largest wholesale market, for a res up on local coronavirus transmission contagions between workers and people who had been close to it.
Health authorities have confirmed that new local transmission cases recorded in the country on Thursday and Friday have taken place in this market in the Chinese capital.
In addition, the Chinese government has on Saturday ordered the immediate closure of at least eleven beijing neighborhoods following the confirmation of 45 coronavirus contagions at the city’s main wholesale market, Xinfadi.
In addition to residential areas, the Government has closed schools and daycare centres, and ordered the immediate testing of more than 10,000 market-related people to begin immediate testing.
District manager Chu Junwei has made it clear that the neighborhoods affected in “war emergency mode”, public transport have been cancelled and the entire area has been cordoned off by the police.
All market staff will have to undergo a test to detect COVID-19, as reported by the market regulatory office and the Health Commission of Fengtai district, where it is located, in a statement, reports Europa Press
In addition, they have moved that, to ensure the supply of products, special places will be established for the sale of vegetables and fruits. The market has an area of 112 hectares and employs 1,500 hectares.
In total, they have ensured that 46 people have tested positive for coronavirus after detecting a focus of contagion, so far without symptoms. Specifically, health workers have tested a total of 1,940 people, according to the deputy director of the municipal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Pang Xinghuo.
Beijing has concentrated all confirmed local transmission cases in China on Friday, six new positives. China’s Ministry of Health has confirmed eleven new cases of coronavirus in total, five of them imported from abroad in Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hainan and Sichuan.
The Ministry of Health has not recorded any new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, so the death toll has remained at 4,634. Meanwhile, the contagion number has risen to 83,075.
Original source: The Independent
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