More than 1,000 Beijing students, teachers isolated after virus case reported

All 1,081 students and teachers of a school in Beijing's Daxing district have been taken to 17 hotels for centralized quarantine and medical observation after a student was confirmed as an asymptomatic COVID-19 case, a senior official said at a news conference on Tuesday.

Han Xinxing, executive deputy head of Daxing district, said at the news conference the related department will provide mental health services and health monitoring for students and teachers during the quarantine.

According to city government, Beijing reported one confirmed case and one asymptomatic case on Monday, both in the Ronghui residential community in Daxing.

The asymptomatic case is a 9-year-old boy, who is the grandson of the other confirmed case, a 63-year-old female, who is the close contact of a previous confirmed case in the community.

The district reported two local cases on Sunday.

The Ronghui community was designated a medium-risk area for COVID-19 epidemic control and prevention as of Monday, said Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.