China to test Lunar New Year travelers for COVID-19; Shanghai reports new cases


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China to test Lunar New Year travelers for COVID-19; Shanghai reports new cases Today 03:00 pm JST 2 Comments BEIJING China plans to impose strict COVID testing requirements during the Lunar New Year holiday season, when tens of millions of people are expected to travel, as it battles the worst wave of new infections since March 2020. The commercial hub of Shanghai reported its first locally transmitted cases in two months on Thursday, underscoring the growing risk of the virus spreading elsewhere. Millions of people in the province of Hebei surrounding Beijing and the northeastern provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang...