Beijing reports 16 new symptomatic COVID cases for May 30, 2 asymptomatic cases

A worker wearing a face mask sprays disinfectant on shared bicycles outside a subway station in the Central Business District (CBD), amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

China's capital Beijing reported 16 new domestically transmitted symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 30, up from eight a day earlier, the city government said on Tuesday.

    Local asymptomatic cases fell to two from four from the previous day, it said.

(Reporting by Winni Zhou, Wang Jing and Engen Tham; Editing by Tom Hogue)