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Beijing Raises Its Guard

‘It’s safe to say that Beijing’s recent epidemic situation has been controlled,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on June 18, seven days after one new locally transmitted case was reported in China’s capital.

From June 11 to 18, 183 domestically transmitted novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were confirmed, with 95.7 percent of these cases showing only mild symptoms, according to data released by the Beijing Leading Group for Prevention and Control of COVID-19 on June 18. These new infections came not long after

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