Beijing district on lockdown after coronavirus spike shuts market


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Beijing district on lockdown after coronavirus spike shuts market Issued on: Modified: 13/06/2020 - 08:34 Officials gather outside the Xinfadi meat wholesale market in Beijing on June 13, 2020 © Greg Baker, AFP A district of Beijing was on a "wartime" footing and the capital banned tourism on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred around a major wholesale market sparked fears of a new wave of Covid-19. Concern is growing of a second wave of the pandemic , which has infected more than 7.66 million people worldwide and killed more than 420,000, even in many countries that...