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Beijing, Jun 17 (EFE/EPA).- Beijing will disinfect all the markets, restaurants and university campuses of the capital and will carry out coronavirus tests on its workers and managers, municipal health authorities announced today.The municipal spokesman, Xu Hejian, stated at a press conference that they will conduct "a comprehensive preventive inspection in all markets, restaurants and canteens," which will include carrying out nucleic acid tests.This measure is taken after the capital yesterday raised the health alert level from 3 to 2, after the outbreak of the virus in the capital's main market, which has already left 137 cases since last Thursday.Beijing has ALSO suspended interprovincial flights and transprovincial group travel, after raising its level of health emergency yesterday, although level 2 - in which the capital was just two weeks ago - does not imply that measure or other drastic measures being adopted . (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY/WU HONG).SHOTLIST: MEASURES BEING CARRIED OUT AGAINST CORONAVIRUS IN BEIJING, CHINA, INCLUDING THE SECURITY DEPLOYMENT OUTSIDE THE MARKET WHERE THE OUTBREAK OCCURED; AND THE BEIJING CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

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