Beijing Quarantines All Residents of Housing Complex: Paper

A health worker takes a swab sample in Beijing on May 19.Photographer: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
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Authorities in Beijing sent all residents of a large housing complex into quarantine after 26 cases of Covid were discovered in the compound, Beijing Youth Daily reported.

Residents of the compound in Chaoyang district were moved to a quarantine center for seven days from Saturday, according to the report, which cited a notice issued Friday by the virus control and prevention command of Nanmofangxiang. The first infections at the complex were found on May 12, it said.