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Virus Outbreak in Beijing Shuts Down Neighborhoods, Businesses

Virus Outbreak in Beijing Shuts Down Neighborhoods, Businesses
A man wearing a face mask gets his body temperature checked by a health worker wearing personal protective equipment as he walks into an outdoor area during a mass testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Xinjiekou urban forest park testing site in Beijing on June 24, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
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The Dragon Boat Festival, one of the most celebrated Chinese traditions, usually brings throngs of people together at this time of year as they engage in boat races and enjoy bamboo-wrapped sticky rice dumplings as a family.

But Beijingers are in no mood for festivities this year.

Eva Fu
Eva Fu
Reporter
Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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