China races to squash new COVID-19 cluster among schoolchildren World News


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China races to squash new COVID-19 cluster among schoolchildren BEIJING-Agence France-Presse Southern Chinese cities closed schools and ordered testing for millions on Sept. 14 in a race to curb a new COVID-19 outbreak which has sparked concerns over infections among unvaccinated schoolchildren. Putian, a city of 3.2 million in coastal Fujian province, ordered testing of all residents on Sept. 14 after Delta variant cases linked to a returnee from Singapore ballooned into a province-wide outbreak of more than 100 people. China has now been hit by multiple outbreaks of the highly contagious Delta variant after initially vanquishing the first wave...