China has ordered the northern city of Xi'an to go into lockdown, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games. 9News
State media reported city officials ordered all residents to stay home unless they had a pressing reason to go out and suspended all transport to and from the city apart from special cases.A worker wearing a protective suit collects a throat swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site in Xi'an.
One person from each household will be permitted out every two days to buy household necessities, the order said. Xi'an on Wednesday reported 52 new locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours. China has adopted strict pandemic control measures under its zero-transmission program, leading to frequent lockdowns, universal masking and mass
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