MILLIONS of people have been forced back into lockdown in China as the country battles its biggest Covid outbreak in months. The rapidly-spreading Delta variant has hit 20 cities in more than a doz…
The capital's Changping district locked down 41,000 people in nine housing communities last week.
Authorities are also rolling out a citywide testing and vaccination campaign, according to an official statement.China had previously boasted of its success in bringing domestic cases down to virtually zero, allowing the economy to rebound.
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