On 20 January 2020, the Daxing District Health Committee informed people that two patients with fever had been diagnosed with the new coronavirus.

[4] On 22 January, the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Beijing Municipal Government decided to establish a leading group for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus infection pneumonia with medical security.

[14] On the afternoon of the same day, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission notified five newly confirmed cases, two of which had no history of contact with Hubei.

[15] Starting on 26 January, all inter-provincial passenger transport and inter-provincial tour chartered vehicles entering and leaving Beijing were suspended;[16] Beijing's universities, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens were delayed;[17] offline training by off-campus training institutions was suspended;[18] and the Beijing Film Academy examination was postponed.

[19] On the same day, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission notified 10 newly confirmed cases.

[20] In addition, the Beijing Municipal Health Commission also notified people that three doctors had been infected, two of whom had been to Wuhan on business.

[24] According to media reports, the dead patient was Yang Jun, a former vice president of Trina Solar, executive president of China Commercial Value Group, and employee of the project development department of Shanghai Electric's design company.

[28] On the same day, two patients with pneumonia infected by the novel coronavirus who were treated at the Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital in Beijing recovered and were discharged.

[32] In the afternoon, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stated at a press conference that the epidemic in Beijing is in the transitional stage from the import period to the spread period.

[37][38] Although China managed to flatten the curve, there was a concern that another second wave of coronavirus would wreak havoc in Beijing and lead to a new lockdown.

[39] There were reports of panic buying by residents to stock up supplies on 24 April 2022 due to a new Omicron variant outbreak in the city.

[40][41] As a response to the outbreak, authorities ordered three rounds of mass testing on all of its residents to avoid another citywide lockdown similar to Shanghai.

[42][43] On 29 April, Beijing closed all schools, with students making up more than 30% of the 150 total cases since the start of the wave two weeks prior.