Beijing public transportation services to resume to normal 

Beijing will fully resume its ground public transportation and urban rail transit services following its decision to lower the emergency response to COVID-19 from Level II to Level III in the city, according to local media reports citing the municipal commission of transportation.

Beijing will also gradually restore inter-provincial and chartered bus transport services, from Beijing to low-risk areas for COVID-19 which were earlier disrupted by the novel coronavirus epidemic, the reports said.

Meanwhile, cinemas in the city resumed operations on Friday, with 39 domestic and foreign films on show on the first day after months-long closure amid the COVID-19 epidemic.

Beijing recorded no new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases for the 18th straight day on Thursday. The citywide total number of cases since an outbreak was detected at the Xinfadi wholesale market on June 11 stands at 335, the municipal health commission said on Friday. 

Fourteen more patients recovered on Thursday, taking the total number of recoveries to 270 in the local cluster infections.

(Cover: Haidian District in Beijing, capital of China, July 19, 2020. /People's Daily)