Beijing authorities have imposed a state of emergency in the city Fengtai district, after the detection of the coronavirus in the largest capital market “Sinhale” and started to check more than 10 thousand of its employees. June 13, suspended the work of the other wholesale markets of Beijing, canceled classes in schools and sports competitions. A return to the rigid restrictive measures occurred in connection with the fact that after a two-month break in Beijing was recorded new cases of infection with coronavirus, after which the Chinese capital is unexpectedly left in leaders on number of cases nationwide.That the Chinese capital is returned to the state of emergency, which, however, is to act only in some areas, more than 21 million megacity, said at a press conference on Sunday, Deputy head of the Moscow propaganda Department Xu Hejian. According to him, “in the last days in the city identified confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, which are all linked to the wholesale market.” “Beijing has already entered into a period of emergency,” stated Xu Hejian.Published on Sunday Goskomstata China new statistics of infection with coronavirus in China shows that in recent days the new national pandemic this winter began in Wuhan, Beijing became the. So, across the country, it was revealed 57 new active cases of infection with coronavirus (38 in China, 19 imported from abroad), and 9 asymptomatic carriers. Almost all internal active cases — 36 out of 38 — have for Beijing.As it turned out, the main nursery COVID-19 was located South of the Chinese capital, in the district of Fengtai district, the largest wholesale market “Sinhali” real “food town”, which covers an area of 112 ha. this market accounts for 80% of all food sales in Beijing, this “Sinhali” ranks first in China in terms of trade.In addition, on Saturday during mass testing were identified from 46 asymptomatic carriers COVID-19 associated with the market. Sunday among the workers “Sinhali”, it was revealed eight cases of infection with coronavirus infection. This was announced at a press conference the Deputy head of the Beijing center for control and prevention of diseases pan Sinha.In order to prevent the conversion of the second Beijing Wuhan, starting Saturday in Fengtai district, was introduced a state of emergency. “Classes in located near three primary schools and three kindergartens, which already has opened, you should re-terminate, and educational institutions that have not yet returned to work after a break must postpone the resumption of classes,”— said the Deputy head of the party Committee of the district of Chu Suniva. 11 in the nearby residential complexes, side by sideing with the market, “Sinhali”, was again introduced strict sanitary control. In the next few days will have to undergo testing more than 10 thousand employees of the market or related persons, as well as those who live near or have visited the market since the 30th of may.For the first time a state of emergency first, the highest level was introduced in Beijing on 24 January and operated for more than three months — until April 30 (there are four levels of emergency). Then the level of response was downgraded to second, and from 6 June to the third level. However, the stable situation lasted a matter of days. On Thursday, two days before the closing of the market, “Sinhali”, in Beijing for the first time in nearly two months set a new active case of infection with coronavirus. Then, on Friday, got sick two more people — the staff of the Chinese research centre, meat products, living in Fengtai district. After that, the city government decided to conduct a thorough epidemiological investigation on the “Sinhale”. The investigation showed that the imported salmon on a cutting Board with coronavirus infection was brought to the market, “Sinhali” market seafood “Zinsen”, which was also closed.As a further restrictive measures since June 13, Beijing authorities again suspended the execution of all types of sporting events. Only at the end of may the Main state administration for physical culture and sports of China was allowed to partially resume the carrying out of internal sports competitions, suspended because of epidemic СOVID-19, however, after only two weeks the authorities had to reverse. In a statement, the center for sports competitions it is noted that throughout the city temporarily suspended the conduct of all types of sports competitions “in connection with the change of the epidemic situation and to perform the work for the prevention of epidemics, reduction of risk levels due to the movement and a mass congestion of people, to ensure the health and safety of citizens”.As stated by a member of the high expert group of the state Committee on questions of health of China Zeng Guang, although in the next few days, the number of cases in Beijing can grow, it will only be a weak form of the second wave, and Beijing should not become a second Wuhan when chetyrehmetrovy the city had to close to prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.However, this forecast may be too optimistic, given that only last week the main market of Beijing was visited by hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom may have had contact with representatives of other regions, and track their contacts, hot on the trail would be very difficult.Sergey Strokan
