Beijing introduces more COVID-19 measures as cases mount before Olympics


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BEIJING: Beijing's city government on Sunday (Jan 23) introduced new measures to contain a recent outbreak of COVID-19, as China's capital continued to report new local cases of the virus less than two weeks before it hosts the Winter Olympic Games. Nine locally transmitted cases were found in Beijing on Jan 22, the National Health Commission said on Sunday, of which six were in the city's Fengtai district. Fengtai will organise nucleic acid tests for COVID-19 for all of its residents on Sunday, district health authorities said. Authorities have asked residents of "risky areas", including a neighbourhood of Fengtai, to...