China is fighting new COVID-19 flare-ups across the country with mass testing and fresh restrictions, including in weary Shanghai where new cases are linked to a karaoke lounge operating illegally.
More than a dozen residential and commercial centres in the Chinese special autonomous region of about 650,000 people have been designated as "red zones," with access restricted almost exclusively to emergency workers.
The city's new leader, John Lee, said on Wednesday that Hong Kong must not "lie flat" when it comes to COVID-19, rejecting the "living with the coronavirus" mentality that most of the world has adopted.
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