Beijing and provinces impose travel curbs as coronavirus cases mount


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BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing banned high-risk people from leaving the Chinese capital and halted some transportation services on Tuesday to stop the spread of a fresh coronavirus outbreak to other cities and provinces. Travellers wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak line up at Xichang Qingshan Airport in Xichang, Sichuan province, China June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins China’s financial hub of Shanghai demanded some travellers from Beijing be quarantined for two weeks, as 27 new COVID-19 cases took the capital’s current outbreak to 106 since Thursday. That makes it the most serious flare-up in China since February,...