More than 100 infected in Beijing food market coronavirus outbreak


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Play video Wang said while the shut-down was an inconvenience, it was necessary to bring the pandemic under control. "Around 10 trucks of goods from my customers are still in the market," he said. The Xinfadi market provides up 70 per cent of Beijing's food and is the largest market in the Chinese capital. Local health authorities have claimed the outbreak is linked to salmon imported from Europe. Major supermarkets removed salmon from their shelves on Monday in response to the claim. Chen Yankai, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Administration, said on Tuesday that 276 markets and...