China fights a new Covid outbreak at the Winter Olympics

throug Published Tens of thousands of people in northern China were subjected to strict stay-at-home orders on Monday as the government sought to eliminate a developing Covid outbreak ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Residents of the Chinese capital were also begged not to leave the city unless necessary, normal transport facilities outside the city gates continued normally. China reported 39 new cases on Monday, bringing the tally of the most recent outbreak of the Delta variant to more than a hundred cases in the following week. The numbers are incredibly low compared to the highest of other places in…