Beijing’s New Outbreak Raises Fears for Rest of the World

People who have had contact with the Xinfadi Wholesale Market, or someone who has, line up for a nucleic acid test for CCP virus at a testing center in Beijing, China, on June 16, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

BEIJING—China raised its emergency warning to its second-highest level and canceled more than 60 percent of the flights to Beijing on June 17 amid a new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak in the capital—warning the rest of the world about how tenacious this CCP virus really is.

New infections spiked in India, Iran, and U.S. states as authorities struggled to balance restarting economic activity without accelerating the spread of the pandemic.