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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing district put itself on a “wartime” footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred around a major wholesale market sparked fears of a new wave of COVID-19. People are wearing face masks inside the Jingshen seafood market which has…

Beijing expels three Wall Street Journal journalists - CNN

Beijing has ordered people returning to the city from holidays to quarantine themselves for 14 days to try to contain the coronavirus spread, as the death toll in China from the outbreak passed 1,500. On Saturday, the country’s National Health Commission said 2,641 new cases were confirmed in the previous 24 hours, taking the total…