Safe But Still On Guard
Four minutes and 52 seconds. That’s the time it took Bridget Mutambirwa to take a nucleic acid test for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing on July 3. Just 24 hours later, the result was released on the Health Kit applet. It was negative. “The whole process was faster than I expected,” the 37-year-old Zimbabwean told Beijing Review.
Three days later, Beijing reported no new domestically transmitted cases, the first time after new cases kept surfacing in the capital since June 11. From June 11 to July 5, the city reported 335 locally transmitted cases,
