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Tech firms based in Beijing have beefed up their virus prevention measures amid the latest surge of COVID-19 cases in the capital.

Chinese tech giant Tencent said in a notice that starting from Monday, all of its workplaces in Beijing will adopt an A/B mode for employees, with number of employees working from the office not exceeding 50 percent. 

According to requirements issued by local officials and building managers, three vaccinations must be completed to gain access to two work buildings located in Beijing's Haidian district, the location of the company's headquarters in the city.

Employees who cannot meet the admission requirements need to provide negative results of nucleic acid tests within 48 hours before entering the buildings, according to the company's notice.

TikTok parent company ByteDance, also headquartered in Haidian district, told the Global Times on Monday that employees living or working in Chaoyang district need to work from home.

Chaoyang district, home to some 3.5 million residents, will roll out three rounds of mass nucleic acid testing starting from Monday after the district registered a spike in COVID-19 cases in Beijing's latest epidemic surge.

Testing applies to those who are living and working in the district, which will be conducted respectively on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the Chaoyang disease prevention and control team said in a notice on Sunday.

Beijing reported 14 COVID-19 cases and five asymptomatic cases on Sunday.

Global Times