China had 57 new confirmed cases in the 24 hours to midnight on Saturday, the National Health Commission reported. The Xinfadi market was closed after 50 people tested positive for the virus in the Chinese capital’s first confirmed cases for 50 days. The world is seeing more than 100,000 newly confirmed cases every day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. China, where the pandemic began in December, and other countries that suffered early on including South Korea, Italy and Spain have seen numbers of new infections decline. On Saturday, authorities in Beijing locked down 11 residential communities near the Xinfadi market.

Source: Irish Independent June 14, 2020 14:03 UTC