Parts of China’s Hainan extend COVID lockdown, Lhasa in Tibet tightens curbs


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(This Aug 11 story refiles to add dropped word ‘million’ in paragraph 5) SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A few cities in China’s tourism hub Hainan extended lockdowns on Friday, with some of the measures expected to last through the weekend, while Lhasa in Tibet also tightened restrictions, among the latest curbs to contain COVID clusters in the country. Under the “dynamic COVID zero” policy that aims at quickly stopping each outbreak from spreading, local governments have imposed shorter lockdowns where people were barred from unnecessary movements for a few days or weeks until clusters were contained within narrower areas. Such lockdowns...