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Taiwan will not 'cruelly' lock down like China: premier

People look out the window of a residential building during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on April 23, 2022. (AFP file photo)

Taiwan will not act "as cruelly as China" in imposing lockdowns, its premier said Sunday, despite surging coronavirus infection numbers.

The self-governing island recorded more than 10,000 new cases for the first time on Thursday, as the government moves from its zero-Covid strategy and begins living with the virus.

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