Summary:
Authorities cover another 8 cases tied to Xinfadi market Sunday morning
China confirms 57 cases from June 13
Tokyo sees another spike
23 US states see cases climb
US reports 25k+ cases, largest daily increase in 2 weeks
Several states reporting record jumps
Iran sees deaths rebound
Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico see troubling climb continue
UK officials review lockdown conditions
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Update (0900ET): The SCMP has a more detailed breakdown of the latest batch of cases reported in China Sunday, the largest one-day total in 2 months.
Beijing reported 36 new local coronavirus cases on Sunday, all of them linked to the city’s biggest wholesale food market.
The patients included 27 people who worked at the Xinfadi food market, which has been closed down, and nine who had been exposed to it, the municipal government said.
Another person had also tested positive for the coronavirus but showed no symptoms, it said. Under Chinese rules, asymptomatic cases are not added to the tally.
Beijing has confirmed 43 local cases since Thursday, before which it had not had any for 55 days.
The outbreak has also spread beyond the capital to neighbouring regions, with the Liaoning provincial government announcing two new cases on Sunday, both of whom had been in close contact with Beijing residents confirmed as having the virus this week.
For the country as whole, there were 57 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to midnight Saturday, the National Health Commission reported, the biggest one-day total in two months. Some 38 of the new cases were locally transmitted, including the 36 in Beijing, with the other 19 were travellers arriving from abroad.
A spokesman for the Beijing Health Bureau urged all residents who visited the Xinfadi market to get tested immediately (that’s an order, not a request).
With the market in Beijing accounting for the vast majority of new cases, it’s clear that the officials are reckoning with the reality that the asymptomatic spread across China’s biggest cities is likely much larger than authorities will admit.
What’s more, officials have reported another 8 positive cases from Sunday morning (June 14), all of which were tied to Xinfadi (according to authorities).
David Adams
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