COVID-19 | Omicron scare in China’s Tianjin close to Beijing ahead of Winter Olympics
The Hindu
Officials said that Tianjin, a municipality that neighbours Beijing, has decided to start a citywide nucleic acid testing after 20 people tested positive for COVID-19
China on January 9 scampered to test 14 million residents of Tianjin as the port city near the capital has set off alarm bells ahead of the next month’s Beijing Winter Olympics by reporting a cluster of COVID-19 cases, including two with the dreaded Omicron variant.
Thousands of people commute between Tianjin and Beijing as it takes hardly 30 minutes by the high-speed train.
Officials said that Tianjin, a municipality that neighbours Beijing, has decided to start a citywide nucleic acid testing after 20 people tested positive for COVID-19.
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