News Snapshot:
With less than two weeks until the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics , Beijing is struggling to keep covid at bay. Nine new cases had been identified in the city on Jan. 22, according to a Jan. 23 news briefing from China’s National Health Commission. Those numbers are low compared to a city like New York, which had nearly 15,000 positive cases that same day, but they’re more than zero, which has been China’s approach to covid since early in the pandemic. Six of Beijing’s nine cases were in the Fengtai district, home to some 2 million residents and...
