11,993 test negative in Beijing's Chaoyang district

Beijing's Chaoyang district had given coronavirus tests to 11,993 people as of 9 pm Monday since a confirmed case was reported in the district on Dec 14, with results coming back negative, the district reported on Wednesday. 

A Hanting Hotel in Chaoyang's Dashanzi area, where one confirmed imported COVID-19 patient stayed and two new related local cases were reported, was designated a medium-risk area on Saturday. It is the sole medium-risk area in the capital city at present.

The hotel was closed to public. 

Chaoyang district sent 30 teams with around 100 to conduct an epidemiological investigation in the neighboring area, including all the locations the patients had visited. 

Residential communities in the area on Saturday began requiring temperature checks for entry. 

According to Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nearby residents are not allowed to leave the city unless absolutely necessary. If anyone in the area has to leave the city, that person must provide a negative nucleic acid test result within seven days.

All restaurants, convenience stores and hairdressers are required to reduce their operating hours and strictly conduct body temperature checks.

Pang said the two confirmed local cases were contacts of the imported case, a person who stayed in the hotel. They are both workers at a restaurant near the hotel and lived in the same dormitory.