China on alert for Covid-19 variant from India as Labour Day stress test looms


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China is on high alert after a number of people coming into the country tested positive for a coronavirus variant believed to have helped fuel a catastrophic surge of cases in neighbouring India . The reports come as China prepares for an immense stress test next week – the five-day Labour Day holiday when travellers are expected to make about 265 million trips around the country. “We have found the Indian variant [among imported cases] in some cities in China. The public is concerned and worried,” Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, said...