In Pictures: Beijing on high alert amid concerns over a new wave of infections

City officials have closed schools, locked down high-risk residential estates, and cancelled hundreds of flights to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease.

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Jun 17, 2020, 02:32 PM

A man wearing a protective suit uses his phone at Beijing's international airport on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

A person receives a parcel inside a residential compound that has been put under stricter virus control measures and surrounded by barbed wire in the Fengtai district in Beijing on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

People wearing protective gear line up at Beijing Capital International Airport after scores of domestic flights in and out of the Chinese capital were cancelled, on June 17, 2020 PHOTO: REUTERS

People deliver food near a barrier that was placed around a residential compound that is under lockdown in the Fengtai district in Beijing on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Junior high school students wearing face masks leave a school with their belongings after schools were shut in Beijing, on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A junior high school student wearing a face mask is seen outside a school after schools were shut in Beijing, on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A blocked entrance of a high school is seen after schools were shut in Beijing, on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Volunteers from the Blue Sky Rescue team wearing protective suits disinfect the Yuegezhuang wholesale market in Beijing on June 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A police officer gestures at a photographer as people line up to get a nucleic acid test at a sport centre in Beijing on June 17, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Medical workers wearing protective suits are seen at the Dongdan sports centre to collect swab samples in Beijing on June 16, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

A woman uses a mobile phone near an information display for international flights at Beijing Capital International Airport on June 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

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