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Parts of Beijing locked down due to fresh virus cluster

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Beijing, China — Eleven residential estates in south Beijing have been locked down due to a fresh cluster of coronavirus cases linked to a nearby meat market, officials said on Saturday.

People gather on the street outside the closed Jingshen seafood market in Beijing on June 12, 2020. – Beijing's Xinfadi meat wholesale market and Jingshen seafood market were closed for disinfection and environmental sample collection after it emerged both were visited by two newly identified coronavirus patients, local media reported. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

Seven cases have so far been linked to Xinfadi meat market, six of them confirmed on Saturday, officials said. Nine nearby schools and kindergartens have been closed.

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