Chinese port city near North Korea beefs up Covid 19 controls


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BEIJING (AFP) - A key Chinese port city near the border with North Korea has rolled out regular Covid-19 testing for all 7.5 million inhabitants as its isolated neighbour grapples with a spiralling outbreak. China has stuck to a hardline, zero-Covid approach that has left the capital Beijing under a mosaic of restrictions and confined most of the 25 million residents of Shanghai to their homes for weeks. Across the border, impoverished, nuclear-armed North Korea has announced more than 1.7 million infections since last week, putting the Chinese authorities on edge. Officials in Dalian - a port around 300km from...