Chinese cities on alert for Covid-19 and Omicron at the start of the Lunar New Year season


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By Roxanne Liu, Stella Keough, Alby Zhang and Ryan Wu BEIJING (Reuters) – Several cities in China are on high alert for COVID-19 as the busy Lunar New Year travel season begins on Monday, requiring travelers to report their flights days in advance, while the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus arrives. Including the capital, Beijing. Officials warn that highly contagious Omicron increases the risk of transmission of Covid-19 as hundreds of millions of people travel through China for the Lunar New Year holiday on February 1. Cities such as Luoyang in central China and Jiangxi in the south announced...