China has ordered a lockdown of the nine million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area.
The Associated PressA woman gets her throat swabbed as part of mass COVID-19 testing in a residential community in Shanghai, China, on Thursday.
Residents are required to remain home, with one family member permitted to venture out to buy food and other necessities every two days. All residents must undergo three rounds of mass testing, while non-essential businesses have been closed and transport links suspended. Just two cases were reported within Changchun itself on Friday, bringing its total to 78 in recent days. Authorities have repeatedly pledged to lock down any community where one or more cases are found under China's "zero-tolerance" approach to the pandemic.16 hours agoAs COVID-19 restrictions loosen across Canada, some experts say it’s still too early to consider the pandemic over, pointing to concerning hospitalization rates and the threat of a more contagious Omicron subvariant.
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