Millions in Beijing’s largest district yesterday took their second COVID-19 tests this week as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak of dozens from spiraling into a crisis that could force it into a Shanghai-type lockdown.
Evidence the month-long isolation has become unbearable for many of the 25 million people in Shanghai is emerging almost on a daily basis on the country’s heavily censored Internet.
A widely circulated video that has since been taken down showed a foreigner trying to break through some metal barriers onto a street, before being pulled back and dragged to the ground by four people in
Officials in Beijing ordered 20 million residents to undergo mass testing earlier this week, after dozens of new coronavirus cases were detected in the Chinese capital. The developments are the latest stress test for China’s “zero COVID” strategy, even as public discontent over Shanghai’s lockdown has begun to emerge.
By Eduardo Baptista and David Stanway BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The second round of COVID-19 testing in Beijing's largest district began on Wednesd.
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