Beijing adds COVID test before Olympics; outbreak linked to cases in four provinces


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BEIJING (Reuters) -A district in China’s capital will begin a new round of COVID-19 tests among its roughly 2 million residents on Tuesday, as flare-ups persisted in the city ahead of the Winter Olympics, while four provinces found cases linked to Beijing clusters. The Beijing municipality reported six new domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms for Sunday, data from the National Health Commission (NHC) showed. It marks the seventh consecutive days of new local confirmed cases for the city. Since Jan. 15, the city has reported a total of 36 local symptomatic cases, according to the NHC. Beijing has quickly...