Those at most risk of having come in contact with the virus were also banned from leaving the city. 'The epidemic situation in the capital is extremely severe,' Beijing city spokesman Xu Hejian warned at a press conference. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and his team from the University of Hong Kong announced the finding after analysing samples from Hong Kong people returning from the province of Hubei. This means the Hong Kong team's finding is 32 times higher than Hubei government's number either from March or today. The Global Times report challenged the motives of Prof Yuen's study, citing a Facebook post written by Stanley Ng Chau-pei, a pro-Beijing politician in Hong Kong.

Source: Daily Mail June 16, 2020 08:09 UTC