President Xi Inspects Coronavirus Hospital in Beijing After Conspicuous Absence

BEIJING—Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his first public visit to the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak, stopping at a Beijing hospital treating infected patients and at a local disease-control office after weeks of remaining largely out of public view.

Mr. Xi on Monday visited the office of a neighborhood community center in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, where he had his temperature taken by a local staff member, received a briefing on disease-prevention work and waved at families cooped up in their apartments, footage…