PHOTO PACKAGE: Beijing Adopts 'Wartime' Measures To Fight COVID-19 Outbreak

June 17, 2020

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The coronavirus situation in China's capital is "extremely severe", a city official warned on June 16, as 27 new infections were reported from Beijing where a new cluster has sparked a huge trace-and-test programme.

(25 PHOTOS from Reuters, AP, AFP, EPA-EFE)

1 Airport staff wearing protective face masks at terminal 3 of Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, 17 June 2020. Beijing cancelled over 1,200 flights amid new outbreak woes, as a spike in Coronavirus cases continues.

A medical worker in a protective suit holds a loudspeaker as people line up outside a site for nucleic acid tests, following new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in Beijing, China June 17, 2020. China reported several dozen more coronavirus infections Tuesday as it increased testing and lockdown measures in parts of the capital to control what appeared to be its largest outbreak in more than two months. — 2 A medical worker in a protective suit holds a loudspeaker as people line up outside a site for nucleic acid tests, following new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in Beijing, China June 17, 2020. China reported several dozen more coronavirus infections Tuesday as it increased testing and lockdown measures in parts of the capital to control what appeared to be its largest outbreak in more than two months.

A worker cleans the glass door to a health center for COVID-19 testing in Beijing on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The domestic outbreak in China had been brought largely under control through strict lockdowns that were imposed early this year -- but a new cluster has been linked to Xinfadi market in south Beijing. — 3 A worker cleans the glass door to a health center for COVID-19 testing in Beijing on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The domestic outbreak in China had been brought largely under control through strict lockdowns that were imposed early this year -- but a new cluster has been linked to Xinfadi market in south Beijing.

4 People wearing face masks and shields line up to get a nucleic acid test at a park in the Fengtai district, after a spike of cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China June 17, 2020.

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PHOTO PACKAGE: Beijing Adopts 'Wartime' Measures To Fight COVID-19 Outbreak