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China seals Zhangjiajie city as its worst coronavirus outbreak in a year intensifies

China's worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic one-and-a-half-year ago escalated Wednesday with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders. Since that initial outbreak was tamed last year, China's people had lived virtually free of the virus, with extremely strict border controls and local distancing and quarantine …

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Millions under virus lockdown as China battles Delta outbreak

Beijing: Millions of people were confined to their homes in China Monday as the country tried to contain its largest coronavirus outbreak in months with mass testing and travel curbs. China on Monday reported 55 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, as an outbreak of the fast-spreading Delta variant reached over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces. In the …

China is witnessing a sudden surge of the Delta variant of the Covid-19 cases with 15 cities, including capital Beijing, grappling with clusters of positive cases, with the official media on Friday calling it the most extensive domestic contagion after the virus outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019. A new surge of Covid-19 cases, which started from an airport in …

Hong Kong CNN — Beijing recorded its first Covid-19 case in nearly six months on Wednesday, as Chinese authorities scramble to prevent the spread of the Delta variant amid an outbreaklinked to an airportin the populous eastern city of Nanjing. Though the latest nationwide count marks a slight drop from the 86 cases recorded Tuesday – the highest single day …