Beijing has further eased travel restrictions after seven days in a row of no new coronavirus cases in the Chinese capital.
Beijing municipal government spokesman Xu Hejian said on Saturday that people could enter and leave the capital freely without being tested for the coronavirus if they were from “low-risk” areas.
An employee checks a passenger's COVID-19 nucleic acid test document at Beijing West Railway Station
All of the country’s medium and high-risk areas are in Beijing, so the easing means that people from outside Beijing can freely enter the capital without swab tests.
Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said some risk and emergency response levels might also be lowered in the next seven to 10 days.
Employees from a supermarket near Yuquandong market deliver and sell goods to residents of a locked-down community
While Beijing has not fully reopened provincial borders and indoor attractions, some stalls at Xinfadi are back in business.
China CDC researcher Zhang Liubo said on Saturday that the beef and lamb trading hall at Xinfadi was still closed but other areas were open again.
An employee checks a passenger's COVID-19 nucleic acid test document at Beijing West Railway Station
Employees from a supermarket near Yuquandong market deliver and sell goods to residents of a locked-down community
