Beijing Residents Fear Contracting Virus at Crowded, Unsafe Test Sites

Residents who visited or live near Xinfadi Market line up for a nucleic acid test in Beijing on June 19, 2020. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

Since the recent resurgence of the CCP virus in Beijing, local authorities have begun mandating testing for certain city residents.

Zhang Qiang, a top official in the city government’s leadership team for virus containment efforts, said at a June 20 press conference that there are 474 testing sites in the city, and 2.3 million people have been tested in the previous seven days.