The Chinese capital has issued fresh guidelines on COVID-19 containment, calling on its residents to continue to wear masks, maintain social distancing and wash hands frequently.
Beijing has effectively kept the coronavirus outbreak from spreading and new local cases are decreasing as the capital uses multiple measures to reduce infections, a senior municipal official said on June 22.
A COVID-19 testing lab built with an air-inflated structure went into trial operation on June 22 at a sports venue in Daxing district of Beijing to address the city's rising demand for nucleic acid tests after a cluster of infections were confirmed recently.
Several employees of the China Meat Food Research Center were reported as confirmed COVID-19 cases a few days ago.
A number of State Council departments, including those responsible for postal services, reform and development, and copyright protection, have responded recently to issues of public concern.
State companies ink big-ticket deals with province to help revive local economy.
Chinese researchers have published data collected from samples of the coronavirus that caused the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing and shared it with international organizations.
The daily nucleic acid testing capacity of Beijing had surged from 100,000 to more than 230,000 as of June 20 amid efforts to contain the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases.
Beijing's epidemic situation is under control and the number of new cases is expected to drop in the coming days, said Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on June 18.
Beijing reported a total of eight COVID-19 cluster infections related to the Xinfadi wholesale farm produce market by the end of June 17, local health authority said on June 18.
From June 15 to 17, a total of 1,042 workers of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau (Beijing) received nucleic acid tests for COVID-19.
China has unveiled the results of the phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials of an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which shows promising results in both safety and efficacy, according to the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).
Beijing upgraded its emergency response to COVID-19 from level III to II starting on June 16, a local official announced.
Officials from China's State Council have urged local authorities in Wuhan, once hardest hit by the COVID-19 epidemic, to highlight epidemic prevention at farm-produce markets amid ongoing epidemic-control efforts.
Many regions across the country have started taking strengthened epidemic prevention and control measures, after three provinces reported confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases related to patients with the infectious disease in Beijing.
Chinese health authority said on June 15 that it received reports of 49 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on June 14, of which 39 were domestically transmitted and 10 were imported.
Beijing has tightened COVID-19 control measures as newly confirmed cases by local transmission have been reported in the past few days in the capital.
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Zeng Guang, a senior researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, answered questions about the new COVID-19 cases reported in Beijing.
Chinese health authority said on June 12 that it received reports of seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on June 11, of which six were imported from overseas.
A white paper on China's battle against COVID-19 has recorded how the country has worked to defeat the epidemic and helped other countries, providing solid evidence that China's painstaking yet effective efforts can never be downplayed.