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When nearby neighborhoods went into lockdown, Liu Li started stocking up. The 42-year-old magazine worker bought vegetables, fruit, medicine and other supplies, adding to stores of basics she had maintained since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
On March 13, a resident in the community where Liu lives with her mother in Changchun, China, tested positive for COVID-19. Everyone was ordered inside.
The fresh lockdown had, so far, been OK, Liu said.
“I live a normal life,” she said. “I work when there are tasks for me. If there aren’t any, I talk to my mother, watch TV or play with my cat.”
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COVID-19 is again surging in Western Europe due to a “perfect storm” of governments lifting restrictions, waning immunity and the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, experts said on Monday.
After more than a month of falling cases across much of the continent, nations such as France, Germany and Italy have all seen a dramatic resurgence of infections.
In France, cases have risen by more than one-third in the week since the government ended most restrictions on Monday last week.
In Germany, despite a new daily record of nearly 300,000 infections on Friday, the government let national legislation enabling disease prevention measures