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Chinese authorities have enforced a lockdown in a county in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in a bid to curb the latest outbreak of novel coronavirus infections in the country. The decision was taken after the county - Alxa Left Banner - reportedly accounted for nearly one-third of the more than 150 Covid-19 infections reported in China over the past week. Home to a population of 1.8 lakh, Alxa Left Banner borders Mongolia. As many as 35,700 residents of Ejin Banner, an administrative division in Alxa Left Banner, have been asked to stay at home. Similar orders have been...
