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YANGON: A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has locked down a town on the porous China border following a Covid-19 spike, it said yesterday, as Beijing battles a Delta-driven outbreak that has spread across the country. Almost 2,000 cases had been detected in the town of Laiza, said a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a rebel group that controls swathes of territory bordering China's Yunnan province. The KIA has imposed a lockdown on the remote town of about 20,000 people since Nov 2 to contain the outbreak, Colonel Hein Wawm told AFP. People are not allowed to enter or...
