President Xi Inspects Coronavirus Hospital in Beijing After Conspicuous Absence

BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping paid out his very first public check out to the front strains of the coronavirus outbreak, stopping at a Beijing medical center treating infected clients and at a nearby disease-command business just after months of remaining mainly out of public perspective.

Mr. Xi on Monday visited the business of a neighborhood community centre in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, in which he had his temperature taken by a nearby staff member, received a briefing on disease-avoidance operate and waved at families cooped up in their flats, footage…