Beijing tests 2 million for coronavirus as Winter Olympics loom
The Hindu
China is sealing the Winter Olympics inside a tightly controlled bubble cocooning thousands of people and stretching nearly 200 kilometres
Beijing city officials on Sunday said all two million residents of a neighbourhood where a small cluster of coronavirus cases was detected will be tested, less than two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics.
China’s cases constitute a tiny fraction of the massive surge in countries around the globe, with the highly contagious Omicron variant driving a fresh spike in infections.
Still, multiple small outbreaks around China — including in Beijing — have tested its strict “zero COVID” policy, which authorities have pursued even as the rest of the world has gradually reopened.
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