China conducts 2M tests in Beijing, withdraws COVID restrictions in Xi'an

Two weeks before the Winter Olympics begin, a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Beijing has spurred authorities to test millions of people and impose new safeguards, even as the city of Xi'an in north-central China eased a month-long lockdown that had isolated its 13 million citizens. Beijing officials said that they would conduct a second round of mass testing of the 2 million people of the Fengtai district, which has seen the majority of the capital's 40 coronavirus cases since January 15. That happened a day after officials said that anybody who has purchased medicines for fever, cough, or certain…