Beijing tightens Covid curbs in bid to stop cases spiralling


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Reuters/ Shanghai/Beijing Some of Shanghai’s 25mn people yesterday managed to get out for short walks and shopping after enduring more than a month under a Covid-19 lockdown, while China’s capital, Beijing, focused on mass tests and said it would keep schools closed. Beijing is desperate to prevent an outbreak now numbering in the dozens of new cases a day from spiralling into a crisis like the one in Shanghai. Most people in the financial hub of Shanghai are still unable to leave their homes after more than a month of confinement. But a gradual easing of curbs in five of...