Covid on the rebound: China puts 9 million people on lockdown

Covid on the rebound: China puts 9 million people on lockdown
Friday 11 March 2022 - 13:07

China on Friday ordered a lockdown on the residents of Changchun city in the northeast over a new spike in COVID-19 cases.

Non-essential businesses have been closed and residents are required to do three rounds of testing.

Daily case numbers in China tripled in the past week, in what has come to be the country’s worst outbreak since the pandemic began, with an average daily load of 1,000 cases.

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