Disinfection work finished at Xinfadi market

Disinfection work finished at Xinfadi market, evaluation says qualified: official

The disinfection work at the Xinfadi market, to which the new outbreak in Beijing has been traced, has finished, and evaluation says the work is qualified, Xu Hejian, spokesperson for the Beijing municipal government told a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

The market was immediately closed on June 12 after cases of the new cluster emerged.

With a size of 1,120,000 square meters (roughly equivalent to 157 soccer fields or 251 American football fields), the Xinfadi market makes up about 80 percent of Beijing's entire farm produce supply.

According to Xu, the first batch of over 5,000 people related to the market has been released from centralized quarantine on Tuesday afternoon after finishing their period of isolation and passing nucleic acid testing.