Schools in Beijing have been closed as the second wave of Covid-19 hits the city.
According to Al Jazeera. the city's education commission ordered the closure of schools in a bid to once again halt the spread of the virus, which originated in Wuhan, China late last year.
On their social media platforms, the education board said that from Wednesday (17 June) all schools would return to online teaching and advised universities to suspend the return of students too.
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The Covid-19 emergency response in the city has also been raised from "Level III" to "Level II".
Level II equates to the reinstation of closed managements on communities in the city, requires the taking of temperatures, registering with the entrance guards, and check health codes before people enter the closed communities.
Under this level, communities, sub-districts, streets in high/medium-risk areas no longer permit outsider entry, and communities of high-risk sub-districts would have closed-off management, which means that no one is allowed to leave.
Chen Bei, the deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Municipal People's Government said: "Beijing faces serious danger of imported cases and spread in the city and the country."
According to state media, this resulted in the cancellation of 1,255 inbound and outbound flights were canceled on Tuesday (16 June). In addition to this, Xinfadi seafood market was closed after a resurgence of cases.
Wang Guangfa, a respiratory expert at Peking University First Hospital in Beijing, said that while a second wave is happening, the emergency control measures implemented have greatly improved since the virus was first discovered in Wuhan.
In an interview with the Global Times, he said: "Compared to the initial stage of the outbreak in Wuhan, we have a very clear understanding of the virus, and people's awareness of prevention and control has made great progress.
"The experience accumulated in the early days of prevention and control also provides an effective reference for prevention and control measures taken at this stage. Beijing will never become the second Wuhan."
Per the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, at the time of writing, there have been 8,176,296 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide, and a global death toll of 443,765.