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The Chinese capital reported 27 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, bringing the total of the new outbreak since Thursday to over 100.
Nine districts have been affected by the recurrence of the novel coronavirus, with Fengtai being hit the hardest.
Chinese researchers have suggested the virus that caused the outbreak may have come from Europe and it is more contagious than that found in Huanan seafood market in Wuhan.
A Chinese medical expert says the number of new COVID-19 cases in Beijing in the upcoming three days will be crucial to predicting how the pandemic situation in the city will evolve.
Wu Zunyou is the chief epidemiologist from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
He made the remarks amid the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases in Beijing.
"The first confirmed case in Beijing was reported on June 11. The city then initiated responses on June 12 and 13, with in-time and effective measures. For those who have been infected, if they were going to show symptoms, it will be on June 16 or the day after June 17. So once there are not a lot of new cases reported in the next few days, then the outbreak will be under control in approximately the same scale as now."
Wu says they are trying to figure out the reasons behind the recent outbreak since there had been no COVID-19 cases in Beijing for nearly two months.
China has delayed the launch of the final satellite of its Beidou-3 Navigation System, which was scheduled for Tuesday morning.
According to Xinhua News Agency, some problems were found during a pre-launch test on the carrier rocket.
A new launch time will be decided at a later date.
The building of the BDS-3 system began in 2009.
It will be the fourth global satellite navigation system after GPS, GLONASS and Galileo.
President Donald Trump says the number of American troops deployed in Germany will be reduced to 25,000 due to Germany's insufficient defense spending.
Currently, there are about 35,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany.
Trump has directed the Pentagon to reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany by September, a move which has drawn opposition among U.S. lawmakers.
Last week, 22 Republican members of Congress warned Trump that a significant force drawdown in Europe would serve Russia's interests at the expense of U.S. national security.
A report suggests that black people die during Taser confrontations with police in the United States at a disproportionately higher rate.
Reuters documented more than 1,000 cases from the early 2000s until the end of 2018 in which people died after being shocked by police using a Taser.
At least 32 percent of those who died were black, and at least 29 percent were white.
A Russian court has found former U.S. marine Paul Whelan guilty of spying for the United States.
50-year-old Whelan, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to 16 years in jail.
The U.S. ambassador called the decision an egregious violation of human rights that would harm ties between the two countries.
Whelan was detained by agents from Russia's Federal Security Service in Moscow in December 2018.
Russia says he was caught red-handed with a computer flash drive containing classified information.
Whelan said he was set up in a sting and had thought the drive, given to him by a Russian acquaintance, contained holiday photos.
China's retail sales of consumer goods declined 2.8 percent year on year in May, narrowing from a drop of 7.5 percent in April.
During the period, retail sales of consumer goods reached 3.2 trillion yuan, or more than 450 billion U.S. dollars, up 0.8 percent month on month.
In the first five months, China's retail sales of consumer goods went down 13 percent year on year to reach 13.9 trillion yuan, narrowing by 2.7 percentage points from the first four months.
