[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] On the 25th, as the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday began in China, 13 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Beijing.


On the 25th, the National Health Commission of China (NHC) announced that as of midnight, there were 19 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in China. Among them, 5 cases were imported from overseas. Of the 14 cases classified as locally transmitted infections, 13 were in Beijing and 1 in Hebei Province.


In Beijing, where 13 new confirmed cases were reported in one day, since the first COVID-19 patient was identified at the Xinfadi wholesale agricultural market on the 11th, a total of 269 patients have been classified as confirmed cases and are receiving treatment. The number of asymptomatic infected individuals, who are not classified as confirmed cases, has reached 22.



The Beijing municipal government has decided not to accept people from medium- and high-risk COVID-19 areas or those who have entered from overseas within the past 14 days at hotels and major tourist sites during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday to prevent the spread of COVID-19.


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