Viral video shows woman crying over virus test result

A short video of a young woman crying over the phone that she was told her test result for coronavirus was positive went viral on Thursday afternoon.

The woman, surnamed Xie, claimed she received her test result by phone at 12:50 pm while she was in a shopping mall in the Shijingshan district in Beijing.

The district government announced on its Weibo account that Xie was brought to hospital for further examination by staff from the district's disease control and prevention center.

Local police have controlled the area and blocked the scene. Close contacts of Xie have been placed into centralized quarantine for further testing, the announcement said.

The city health authority reported one new case on Wednesday, the fewest since the capital found a cluster of novel coronavirus cases on June 11, and another two patients were discharged from hospital on Wednesday.

Beijing has reported new local cases in the single digits for four days in a row, according to Xu Hejian, spokesman for the municipal government.

From June 11 to Wednesday, there were 329 confirmed cases in Beijing. Four patients have been discharged and the rest are being treated in hospital.

"Beijing has contained the epidemic with 20 days of hard work and great efforts," Xu said."However, we still need to be on guard and strictly conduct all prevention measures."

Pang Xinghuo, deputy head of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said risks still exist and people should not get together or participate in any gatherings.

Wang Hufeng, a professor with the public management college at Renmin University of China, said the falling number of new local cases in Beijing has proved that the fast response to the emergency in Beijing was effective.

"However, it's not appropriate to lower the response level right now," he was quoted by Health Times as saying.

He said Beijing should wait for one to two weeks before lowering the response level.

According to the authority, 47 communities in 11 districts in Beijing have found confirmed COVID-19 cases since June 11. At the peak of the cluster infection, there were five high-risk communities and 39 medium-risk communities.

By 3 pm on Thursday, there were three high-risk areas and 27 medium-risk communities in the city.