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Travel restrictions were yesterday placed on nearly half a million people near Beijing, as authorities rush to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with a mass test-and-trace effort and lockdowns in parts of the Chinese capital. Another 21 cases of the virus were reported in the past 24 hours in Beijing, the Chinese National Health Commission said, taking the total number to 158 since a fresh cluster was detected last week after months of no confirmed local transmissions. One case was also recorded in the neighboring city of Tianjin and two more in Hebei Province, which surrounds Beijing — prompting...
