The two airports of Beijing cancelled this Wednesday, more than a thousand flights, after a resurgence of cases of covid-19 in the chinese capital, announced official media.
From the early hours of the morning in chinese territory, 1.255 flights with departure and destination airports of Beijing were cancelled, that is to say, 70 % of the initially projected, said the People’s Daily and the China Daily.
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The authorities urged the neighbors of Beijing to avoid the travel “non-essential” out of the city and ordered them to close schools and secondary schools.
Several cities began to impose a mandatory quarantine on all travelers from the chinese capital.
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The users of the train that you booked tickets with departure or destination Beijing will be able to request the refund without charges, also said the People’s Daily.
According to the Wednesday, the mayor of Beijing, in the capital, there were 31 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a figure that has remained stable for the fourth consecutive day.
Until then, Beijing had not detected any case of coronavirus from the previous two months and the citizens were almost back to normal.
But the fear of a second wave epidemic led to the authorities to act. The city council launched a campaign of mass screening and confined to residential areas.
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AFP
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