China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the country’s top oil and gas producer, imposed on Thursday a state of emergency in all its units in the capital Beijing after four employees tested positive for COVID-19. CNPC started testing all employees in Beijing, Global Times reported on Thursday, citing Liu Shengyao, the deputy director of the Integrated Management Department at CNPC. More than a hundred CNPC employees had attended office meetings in Beijing last week, and were in contact with an employee from the Jilin Province in northeast China, who later tested positive for COVID. Employees who had left the Beijing office building have been asked to work from home for seven days as a preventive quarantine measure, Global Times reports. The company is encouraging employees to hold meetings via video conference tools. China has been quick to impose strict quarantine measures after detecting COVID cases as it continues to pursue […]