China has mostly kept its borders closed, sticking with its rigid 'zero-COVID' policy - enforcing lockdowns, quarantines, case tracing and mass testing. 9News
in nearly half a year as strict new measures are imposed in Beijing and across the country to ward against new outbreaks.
That compares to 98.3 million cases and 1 million deaths for the US, with its population of 331 million, since the virus first appeared there in 2020. Beijing has resisted calls to cooperate fully with the investigation into the origin of the virus, angrily rejecting suggestions it may have leaked from a Wuhan lab, seeking to turn such accusations on the US military instead.
The four-month-old girl died after suffering vomiting and diarrhea while in quarantine at a hotel in Zhengzhou.
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