Beijing reports seven new Xinfadi wholesale market-related cases

All seven new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Beijing on Monday are related to the Xinfadi wholesale market cluster, Beijing's health official said on Tuesday.

Among the cases, five are individual business managers at Xinfadi, and the other two are cleaners working at the market, said deputy director of Beijing's Center for Disease Control Pang Xinghuo in a press briefing. They were currently in quarantine and under medical observation.

On Tuesday, another patient from Beijing Ditan Hospital recovered from COVID-19, and since then has been discharged, the hospital's deputy director Wu Guo'an said.

The first recovered patient since the detection of the Xinfadi market cluster outbreak on June 11 was discharged on Monday. 

Wu also noted that all discharged patients would need to enter quarantine for 14 more days. He said no instance of human-to-human transmission from discharged patients had been detected.