Reemergent Cases of COVID-19 — Xinfadi Wholesales Market, Beijing Municipality, China, June 11, 2020
Wenjie Tan, Peihua Niu, Xiang Zhao, Yang Pan, Yong Zhang, Lijuan Chen, Li Zhao, Yanhai Wang, Dayang Wang, Jun Han, George F. Gao, Chun Huang, Wenbo Xu, Guizhen Wu
Abstract
No new local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were reported in Beijing for over 56 days before the reemergent COVID-19 cases that were reported on June 11, 2020, and more than 200 confirmed cases have been reported as of June 20 in Beijing. All confirmed COVID-19 cases were associated with Xinfadi Wholesale Market. Here, we reported the phylogenetic characteristics of the COVID-19 viruses (also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2, and human coronavirus 2019, HCoV-19) sequenced from the clinical specimens of 2 human cases and 1 environmental sample.