Medical staff collect swab samples from workers from China Railway Engineering Group at Beijing Fengtai Railway Station, on April 24, 2020. (ZOU HONG / CHINADAILY.COM.CN)

Beijing's recent COVID-19 infections related to the Xinfadi food market is "basically under control," a municipal official said on Wednesday.

Only 10 of the 256 cases were patients in serious or critical conditions, a low proportion compared with confirmed cases before March 31 on the Chinese mainland, said the commission head, Lei Haichao, at the press conference

Xu Hejian, spokesperson for the Beijing municipal government, said at a press conference that the Chinese capital still faced a "complicated epidemic situation" with discoveries of family and workplace clusters, and sporadic in-community cases.

According to the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, of the city's 256 newly confirmed cases, 253 were related to the Xinfadi market clusters, while three other cases were still under scrutiny.

Only 10 of the 256 cases were patients in serious or critical conditions, a low proportion compared with confirmed cases before March 31 on the Chinese mainland, said the commission head, Lei Haichao, at the press conference.

From June 11 to 23, Beijing reported 256 confirmed domestically transmitted cases. Before that, the city had observed 57 days without reports of locally transmitted cases.

Beijing reported seven new confirmed domestically transmitted cases, four suspected cases, and one asymptomatic case on Tuesday, the municipal health commission said on Wednesday. 

It is not right for some places to carry out a two-week quarantine for all people coming to or leaving Beijing, an official from the National Health Commission said on Wednesday at a news conference.

He Qinghua, inspector at the commission's bureau of disease prevention and control, said the central government and Beijing municipal government have made clear regulations in four aspects on travelers in and out of Beijing.

One, Beijing has required nucleic acid testing for those who visited the Xinfadi market and its personnel, and people living in medium- and high-risk communities and townships.

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Two, Beijing has prevented people from medium- and high-risk communities and townships from leaving the city, and other people who have essential travel out of Beijing must present a negative nucleic acid test result conducted within seven days of departure.

Three, people who hold a negative nucleic acid test report or health code containing negative result information should not be quarantined or restricted at their destinations, so long as they take personal protection measures and have a normal temperature.

No other restrictions may be set up by local governments.

Four, local governments should arrange nucleic acid testing for people who could not present a negative nucleic acid test result conducted within seven days of departure. If tested positive, people should receive medical treatment in quarantine, and if tested negative and carrying a normal temperature, people should be allowed free movement.

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