China races to eliminate new Covid-19 cluster among school children


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Beijing: Southern Chinese cities closed schools and ordered millions of tests on Tuesday in a race to curb a new Covid-19 outbreak, raising concerns over infections among illiterate schoolchildren. Putin, a city of 3.2 million in coastal Fujian province, ordered testing of all residents on Tuesday, after cases of the delta variant joined a province-wide outbreak of more than 100 people linked to a returnee from Singapore. China has now been hit by several outbreaks of the highly contagious delta variant after starting the first wave of the coronavirus last year. The Fujian cluster is the biggest rebound in weeks...