Delivery drivers rest outside a shopping centre after another Covid-19 outbreak in Beijing, China July 8, 2020. — Reuters pic
Instead, they sealed off a limited number of residences and focused on mass testing, eventually screening more than half of the capital's 21 million people. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the outbreak, but early tests found traces of the virus on a cutting board at Xinfadi used to process imported salmon.After the virus first began to spread from Wuhan, China imposed a strict lockdown of the city and surrounding Hubei province in January that confined nearly 60 million people to their homes.
Most malls and restaurants in parts of the city where no cases had been detected were allowed to remain open, however. For that reason and others, Beijing is unlikely to serve as a model for other countries dealing with their own second-wave outbreaks.
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