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Beijing raised its public health emergency response from the third to the second level due to the new cluster of local COVID-19 infections and the numbers of confirmed cases in the city exceeding 100 over the past five days, a senior official announced on Tuesday.

一名高级官员于周二宣布，由于新冠病毒感染以及确过去五天已超过100人数的确诊病例，北京将公共卫生应急响应由三级提升到二级。

> emergency response：应急响应

exceed：超过

Chen Bei, deputy secretary general of the Beijing municipal goverment, said at a news conference that people should not leave Beijing unless their trip is essential.

> municipal [mju'nɪsɪp(ə)l]：[mju'nɪsɪp(ə)l]；

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All the new cases are related to the Xinfadi wholesale market in Fengtai district. The cluster of infections is believed to be associated with human-to-human transmission and contaminated objects, Chen said.

Shi Guoqing, deputy director of the emergency center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the novel coronavirus was found on salmon cutting boards at the Xinfadi market in Fengtai, and it was not discovered before the salmon entered the market.