China has plunged the southern city of Baise into a lockdown to contain a Covid-19 outbreak.
The city’s four million residents have been ordered to stay at home and public transport has been suspended.
Harsh restrictions came after the city saw just 135 new positive infections, with at least two of them identified as the Omicron variant.
The city is the latest to be put into a strict lockdown in line with China’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid.
It comes as Chinese officials try to put get a grip on the outbreak with the Beijing Winter Olympics under way.
No new cases were reported in the Chinese capital on Tuesday.
More than 30 athletes are in isolation facilities after testing positive for Covid, event organisers said on Tuesday.
The initial outbreak in Baise was reported on Saturday, as the Lunar New Year holiday ended and many people travelled to their hometowns.
For the third consecutive year, Beijing has asked people to stay in the city to avoid a major outbreak, but many still took trips to more provincial towns.
Local lockdowns, mass testing and other strict measures have been key in keeping China’s Covid-19 numbers low compared with the rest of the world.
China has recorded 126,629 Covid-19 cases and 4,849 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.
