China border city turns to cash incentive in hunt for Covid-19 source


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Local authorities in a northern Chinese city on the border with Russia are offering a cash reward to anyone who can help trace the source of its Covid-19 outbreak . Officials in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, said a 100,000 yuan (US$15,500) reward was available as part of a “people’s war” to stamp out one of the country’s largest resurgences of the virus in months. China reported 43 local cases on Tuesday in a Delta-driven surge that has fanned out to 20 provinces and regions, keeping new case numbers in the double-digits over the past three weeks. As more countries lift Covid-19...