The COVID-19 booster vaccination rate of those aged 80 and above is less than 30 percent, based on the data collected from the latest outbreak in Beijing. The number of new cases continues to increase and cases detected among communities continue to rise. The city is at the most critical moment of fighting COVID-19, Beijing officials said at Tuesday’s press briefing.
Beijing will tighten its COVID-19 control measures starting on Thursday by requiring negative COVID test results no older than 48 hours to enter public places, as it confronts the recent large rise in infections, a senior official said on Tuesday.
BEIJING China's capital Beijing reported 634 new local Covid-19 cases for the 15 hours to 3pm (0700 GMT) on Tuesday (Nov 22), the deputy director of city's municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Liu Xiaofeng said at a briefing. The capital city will require a negative PCR test result within 48 hours for people to enter public places.
Beijing is facing the most complicated and severest anti-epidemic situation since the outbreak of COVID-19, said Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) officials on Monday.
Beijing says it is facing its most severe Covid-19 test yet after it saw the country's first coronavirus deaths in six months and cases continue to soar.