Hundreds at Beijing university campus sent into quarantine amid Covid-19 outbreak, China News AsiaOne


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Hundreds of students and staff at a university in suburban Beijing have been sent to an isolation facility following a Covid-19 outbreak on campus. The Fangshan campus of the Beijing Institute of Technology is now a high-risk area, according to district spokesman Zhang Mingzhi. "After receiving the report that someone tested positive on campus, the Fangshan district immediately organised nucleic acid tests and rapid antigen tests for everyone," he said, adding that contact tracing was also under way. Zhang said there were 670 students and staff living on the campus, but did not reveal how many people had tested positive....