Roughly two million Beijing residents were required to line up in freezing temperatures for a third round of mass testing Wednesday, part of stepped-up pandemic control measures ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics
HONG KONG—China appears to have brought two recent large coronavirus outbreaks under control and has turned its focus to Beijing, where health authorities are ramping up testing andas the Chinese capital prepares for the Lunar New Year and the Winter Olympics.
Chinese authorities this week lifted a roughly monthlong lockdown of the central Chinese city of Xi’an, where a Delta outbreak had spread last month. The port city of Tianjin, which neighbors Beijing, declared victory over an Omicron outbreak, lifting most of the restrictions on its citizens.
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