China's capital Beijing loosened travel restrictions to prevent Covid-19 from spreading, after five days of detecting new cases.

Beijing city government spokeswoman Xuhe Jia reported on July 11 that people from low risk areas could freely enter and leave Beijing.

More than a week ago, officials announced that residents from low-risk areas in Beijing could leave the city without submitting the nCoV test results.

The Beijing Health Commission today said the total number of cases in the city is now 335, since the new outbreak was discovered at the Tan Phat Dia wholesale market on June 11.

Ngo Ton Huu, a leading epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), said the level of risk and emergency response to the disease could also be lowered in 7-

"Beijing has not recorded new cases for four days, which means it has curbed the spread of the virus," Wu said on state-run CCTV.

Beijing last month raised the emergency response to the Covid-19 epidemic from tertiary to second-grade in a four-level ladder, after the new Covid-19 epidemic cluster started on Tan Phat Dia.

CCDC expert Truong Luu Ba said the stalls selling beef and lamb at Tan Phat Dia market were still closed but some other stalls had reopened.

More than 210 countries and territories have appeared Covid-19, after the outbreak broke out in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, leaving more than 12.8 million infected, nearly 567,000 dead.