(Yicai Global) June 15 -- In the face of a new Covid-19 cluster, Beijing yesterday completed nucleic acid tests on 76,499 people, the city’s health commission said at a press briefing today. Fifty-nine were positive.

Of them, 27 were already hospitalized, 21 were newly confirmed, while the remaining 11 need further diagnosis.

China’s capital city had set up 193 sampling stations in its 16 districts as of this morning.

Residents are tested at Xuanwu Stadium, a sampling station in Xicheng district.

Residents arrive for testing at Xuanwu Stadium.

Residents line up in front of Beijing Youan Hospital a few kilometers from Xinfadi wholesale market.

Residents in downtown Haidian district, who visited local wet markets, are bussed to a hospital for testing.

A residential community in Xicheng district raised the alert by taking strict virus prevention and control measures.

Editors: Dou Shicong, Peter Thomas