China locks down Lanzhou as Covid cases surge due to delta variant


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China has placed its Lanzhou city of around four million people under lockdown issuing orders for citizens not to leave their homes except in emergencies, after about half a dozen cases were confirmed in the city. As the rest of the world opens up, China has maintained a zero-Covid approach that has seen harsh local lockdowns imposed over handfuls of cases. On Tueday, the country saw fresh restrictions as China reported 29 new domestic infections including six in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province in the country’s northwest. The latest ‘outbreak’ has been linked to the deadly Delta variant of...