China Places Three Million Under Lockdown Amid COVID-19 Spike


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• ( Leave a comment ) This photo taken on January 16, 2021 shows residents undergoing Covid-19 coronavirus tests at a makeshift testing centre inside a residential compound in Shijiazhuang, in northern Hebei province, as part of a mass testing programme after the province declared an “emergency state”.STR / CNS / AFP Advertisements Nearly three million people were put under lockdown in China Monday after a surge in coronavirus cases linked to a travelling salesman in the country’s northeast. While China has largely brought the virus under control, a sharp rise in cases in the past few weeks has prompted...