“It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father. No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew and loved him,” she tweeted.
“Beijing will take the most resolute, decisive, and strict measures to contain the outbreak,” Xu Hejian, spokesman at the Beijing city government said.
"COVID-19 is also a litmus test for democracy," said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, chairman of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation and a former NATO secretary general.
The agencies called for a "full and safe resumption" of essential immunisation campaigns and nutrition services, following "strict precautionary measures for infection prevention".
Health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said 113 new fatalities took to 8,950 the total number of COVID-19 deaths since the country's outbreak began in February.
The warning comes after the health authorities on Friday extended prevention and sanitation guidelines to protect against the coronavirus until daily new infections drop to single digits.
Sales will be completed by the end of July, according to the sources, who attended a meeting held by China's Ministry of Finance, which will issue the bonds.