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China has shut down schools, put in place travel restrictions, and ordered nucleic acid tests for millions in the eastern province of Fujian as the caseload of new Covid-19 infections more than doubled to 139 until Tuesday evening.Termed as the first “school-centred” outbreak in China, nearly three dozen children have been infected in the sudden surge of infections, first detected in a school during random nucleic acid testing last week.The fresh cases have so far been concentrated in three cities, Putian, Quanzhou and provincial capital, Xiamen, though reports say contacts of those infected have travelled to neighbouring provinces.Around 20 cases...
