Three rounds of PCR tests will be conducted from Tuesday to Saturday in the districts Dongcheng, Xicheng, Haidian, Fengtai, Shijingshan, Fangshan, Tongzhou, Shunyi, Changping, Daxing, as well as the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area.
“Beijing is the capital, the virus controls are stronger than in other places, I don’t think it will be like Shanghai, where it suddenly increases to thousands of cases,” Liu said.
While Beijing’s latest COVID outbreak is modest by global standards, a Shanghai-style lockdown of the Chinese capital would further cloud the country’s economic outlook.
Shanghai’s economy slowed in the first quarter, hurt by rare declines in industrial output and local consumption due to the city’s COVID outbreak. In March alone, retail sales nosedived by 18.9 per cent.
“Clearly, Shanghai has taught one lesson, which is if you go down this line of total lockdowns, not only is it incredibly expensive, but also it’s economically destructive and it stresses out the social fibre,” Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce, told Reuters.
Asian markets suffered their worst day in over a month on Monday on fears that Beijing was about to enter such a lockdown. Chinese shares slumped to a two-year low.
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