Xinfadi market reopening shows Beijing's effectiveness in curbing virus: China Daily columnist

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In the article, the writer says that it took only 12 days for Beijing to cut off the transmission chain from the Xinfadi market cluster outbreak, according to scientific estimation.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BEIJING - The Xinfadi wholesale market, the source of the latest novel coronavirus infections in Beijing, reopened on Saturday after the city authorities effectively controlled the new outbreak in less than two months.Which shows that, if prompt, strict and effective measures are taken, near normalcy can be restored in a couple of months.

The measures Beijing implemented after the Xinfadi infection cluster was detected were not the result of rocket science. The first confirmed case in the new infection cluster, a 52-year-old man, faithfully informed the city officials, including medical experts, of every place he had visited since May 30 and provided a list of 38 people with whom he had come in close contact in the two weeks before being diagnosed.

Some even termed the strict measures as"overkill", because people even driving past the closed Xinfadi market received a message on their phones asking them to take a virus test.

 

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