China Lifts Strict Covid-19 Lockdown in Xian After Daily Cases Hit Zero


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The city of Xian, China lifted its covid-19 lockdown on Monday after a month of imposing some of the toughest public health measures in the world, according to Chinese state media the Global Times. But the lockdown worked. Xian, which has a population of 13 million people, hasn’t had a new case of covid-19 since three cases were detected on Jan. 20.The lockdown in Xian, which started on Dec. 23, 2021, attracted international attention as one of the harshest covid-related public health measures on the planet, and western media ran story after story about how the Chinese people were suffering....