Beijing has been cleared of medium and high-risk areas for COVID-19 with the last medium-risk area being downgraded to low-risk on Friday.
A resident and a community worker celebrate the lift of the lockdown at Ronghui Community in Daxing District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 10, 2021. (File photo: Xinhua)
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in an announcement that a residential community in Haidian District was downgraded to a low-risk area as no new cases were reported there for 14 consecutive days.
With the adjustment, the whole of Beijing is in the low-risk category for COVID-19.
Beijing has also traced 28 contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case reported in Shanghai on Thursday. Tests of the samples collected from the venues the case had visited during Nov. 12 and 15 in Beijing were all negative.
