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People in a Beijing district with some 2 million residents were ordered Sunday to undergo mass [coronavirus testing](//globalnews.ca/tag/covid) following a series of infections as China tightened anti-disease controls ahead of the [Winter Olympics.](//globalnews.ca/tag/winter-olympics) The government told people in areas of the Chinese capital deemed at high risk for infection not to leave the city after 25 cases were found in the Fengtai district and 14 elsewhere. The ruling Communist Party is stepping up enforcement of its “zero tolerance” strategy aimed at isolating every infected person as Beijing prepares to open the Winter Games on Feb. 4 under intensive anti-virus controls....