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Shanghai tightened the blockade of COVID-19 and expected it to be the last week of the fight against the virus, but Beijing continued to fight a much smaller but persistent outbreak. 25 million Chinese commercial hubs wanted to break out of the painful blockade six weeks ago later this month. Saturday officials hoped that the final tightening would eradicate the last infection of the pandemic’s worst COVID outbreak in the country. Many residents of the country’s most populous cities were allowed to leave their homes for short walks and grocery excursions about a week ago, and have recently stayed indoors...
