BEIJING: China is enforcing lockdown restrictions in areas around Beijing more intensively, and will mass test the nearby port city of Tianjin, stepping up its quest to wipe out Covid-19 ahead of a key meeting of the Communist Party’s top leaders.
The moves come even as the national case load is being contained at a high cost to the Chinese economy, with 1,556 new infections reported for Sunday in the community. Despite the impact, the country remains focused on eliminating transmission of a virus that most of the world has now accepted as endemic.
