Coronavirus: Beijing to test all food and parcel delivery workers amid new spike in cases


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Beijing will test all food and parcel delivery workers for coronavirus in an effort to control a new spike in cases. Chinese officials are stepping up nucleic acid testing for couriers who work in Beijing after traces of COVID-19 were found on chopping boards at Xinfadi food market in the southwest of the city, state media said. It comes after 200 new coronavirus cases were reported in the capital since June 11 in the biggest spike in infections since the previous peak in early February. Officials have been testing people who work in catering and deal with imported food, as...