Beijing: Two Covid-19 patients died in Beijing on Tuesday, triggering a stir and authorities have closed parks, offices and shopping malls, tightening Covid rules.

Along with this, strict lockdown rules have been enforced in the city’s most populous Chaoyang district and people have been urged not to leave the house unless necessary.

Health authorities have urged about 3.5 million residents of Chaoyang district to stay at home, as it became the worst-hit region in the capital’s latest Covid outbreak.

Local authorities on Monday identified more than 1,400 cases in Beijing, with 783 infected people found in Chaoyang alone.

This is the first time Beijing has recorded more than 1,000 new cases a day since the pandemic began in late 2019 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Meanwhile, the death toll from corona infection in Beijing has now increased to five.

In a statement to state media on Tuesday, Hu Jiang of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration said, “The local epidemic situation in China is serious and complex, the spread of the epidemic is accelerating in some areas and the difficulty of prevention and control is increasing.”

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