China reports 57 new COVID-19 cases after Beijing market outbreak

BEIJING: China's National Health Commission (NHS) on Sunday said that there were 57 new COVID-19 cases detected in the last 24 hours, of which 36 were recorded in Beijing, following a recent outbreak of the virusin the capital city's main market. These numbers mark the largest increase in cases in the country, where the pandemic originated in December 2019, in the last two months, reports Efe news. In Beijing, it marked the largest daily increase in coronavirus cases since the data was made public. On Saturday, the city had announced six new cases from the previous day after an outbreak was detected in the large wholesale market of Xinfadi, which has been sealed along with five others in the capital. Of the 19 so-called imported cases, or those that originated abroad, 17 were detected in the southern province of Guangdong, and one each in Shanghai and Chongqing. The remaining two infections at the local level, apart from the 36 in the Chinese capital, were detected in the northeastern province of Liaoning, where an infection related to the Beijing outbreak was announced on Saturday.