Beijing Canceled More Than A Thousand Flights After Raising The Alert Level To COVID-19
As of 9:10 am 17/6, two
airports in the capital Beijing (China) has announced the cancellation of 1,255
flights, equivalent to 70% of the expected journey.
According to the China
Daily newspaper, in addition, the national railway company that allows
passengers to book tickets in advance to leave Beijing will be refunded.
A day earlier, on June 16,
Chinese capital officials announced that they had raised the emergency response
to the COVID-19 respiratory tract pandemic from Level III to Level
II.
Accordingly, schools across the city will be closed and switched to
online teaching, while suspending plans to resume learning activities of
university students.
Beijing is also urging
people to stop unnecessary travel activities out of the city, while people
living in areas of "medium and high risk" must not leave the
locality.
After nearly two months
there were no new cases, on June 11, Beijing recorded more cases again. After
that, health authorities discovered many new cases related to the largest Tan
Phat Dia wholesale market in Asia and the second wholesale market in Hai Dien
district.
Beijing has begun to impose
restrictive measures to prevent the spread of disease. Some counties have
set up security posts, closed schools and asked people to test for
viruses. Tan Phat Dia is also the source of the spread of 19 newly
discovered cases on June 16 in Beijing.
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