China puts half a million in lockdown as coronavirus cases surge


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China has imposed a strict lockdown on some 500,000 people in Anxin county, near Beijing to contain a new coronavirus outbreak. Chinese health officials said the county will be “fully enclosed and controlled,” the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the city of Wuhan earlier this year. Only one person from each family will be allowed to go out once a day to purchase necessities such as food and medicine, the county’s epidemic prevention task force said in a statement. The move comes after another 14 cases of the virus were reported in the past...