China's vast COVID testing system blankets its 1.4 billion people – and foreigners, too. Here's what a day under it looks like in Beijing.
Two of China's biggest cities, capital Beijing and Shanghai, got to enjoy about one month of reprieve from draconianrestrictions, including full and partial lockdowns, after officials declared victory over the virus. But as of Thursday, both megacities were racing once again to contain outbreaks fueled by highly transmissible Omicron subvariants of the virus.
The capital reported a cluster of BA.5.2 subvariant cases, which officials said started among staff at a boutique hotel near Beijing's world-famous Great Wall area. Only about a dozen infections were confirmed by Thursday, but the local government was taking no chances.
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