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Beijing encourages all residents to spend the coming Dragon Boat Festival in the city, and said people should avoid infection by staying away from places of high or medium risk, a senior official said at a news conference on Tuesday. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival will fall on June 3 this year, and people will have a three-day holiday starting on Friday. Beijing reported five new locally transmitted cases as of 3 pm on Tuesday, bringing the total number of infections to 1,757 since April 22, according to Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and...
