BEIJING, Jan 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Beijing Municipality swung into action, adopting swift and targeted measures, to contain the spread of infections, after a local resurgence in COVID-19 cases was reported recently.
Yesterday, Fengtai, a district of about two million people, conducted district-wide nucleic acid testing, to mitigate the risk of community transmission, after a cluster infection was detected.
Authorities in Fengtai set up over 1,000 sampling sites – mostly in residential areas – and dispatched over 13,000 medical and service support workers, to ensure smooth and efficient testing. Besides, 10 other districts in the Chinese capital sent 4,600 medical personnel to Fengtai, to help with the anti-pandemic work.
“Early in the morning, workers set up the sampling site in our residential compound and started knocking on doors, to remind us to undergo testing,” said a woman in Shouwei, yesterday.
Beijing reported nine locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, including five confirmed cases and four asymptomatic carriers, from 4:00 p.m. Saturday to 4:00 p.m. yesterday.
Since Jan 15, the city reported a total of 43 local COVID-19 cases, with six attributable to the Omicron variant and 37 to the Delta variant, said Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the municipal disease prevention and control centre.
Currently, the Omicron variant outbreak has stabilised, with new cases coming from areas already under epidemic control and the risk of community spread is limited, Pang added.– NNN-XINHUA
