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China is carrying out mass COVID-19 testing following the outbreak at a seafood market where 10,000 people work. China’s People’s Armed Police have been sent to Xin Fa Di to impose a lockdown in order to avoid the crisis escalating further. 

Stephen McDonell, the BBC’s China correspondent tweeted: “In #Beijing a new cluster of #covid19 cases emanating from, wait for it, a seafood market.

“Footage appears to show hundreds of People’s Armed Police sent to the Xin Fa Di wholesale market.

“Officials said traces of the #coronavirus found on a chopping board with ‘imported’ salmon.”

He added in a separate tweet: “The greatest emphasis, in terms of control measures has been in the Beijing district around where the huge Xin Fa Di wholesale market and around a couple of other markets.

“There are schools closed and housing areas sealed off to all but local residents.”

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