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Province urging high-risk residents to get spring COVID booster: COVID-19 boosters are available for high-risk Manitobans this spring, and most Manitobans will ...
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Province urging high-risk residents to get spring COVID booster
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Province bracing for combined surge in COVID-19 and flu, Henry says: Modelling used to prepare the health-care system for the fall COVID and flu season projects ...
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Province bracing for combined surge in COVID-19 and flu, Henry says
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Province tightens masking rules in long-term care, critics say more needs to be done
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Province tightens masking rules in long-term care, critics say more needs ...
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Data on COVID-19 scarce as long-term care homes deal with outbreaks: One Calgary retirement home had 50 resident cases tied to a COVID-19 outbreak as of Friday ...
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Data on COVID-19 scarce as long-term care homes deal with outbreaks
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Taiwan medical team providing post-COVID services in Philippine province: Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps arrives in Zamboanga Del Sur
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Taiwan medical team providing post-COVID services in Philippine province
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China’s Tourist Sites Swarmed During Holiday Despite Covid Risks: China’s most scenic destinations have been inundated during the Spring Festival holiday ...
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China’s Tourist Sites Swarmed During Holiday Despite Covid Risks
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90% of China’s Henan Province Infected With COVID, Official Says: China’s central government ditched its extremely restrictive zero-COVID policy earlier this ...
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90% of China’s Henan Province Infected With COVID, Official Says
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China Imposes More Covid Lockdowns, Stoking Anxiety: Nearly every province has recorded infections in recent days, leaving some 60 million residents locked down ...
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China Imposes More Covid Lockdowns, Stoking Anxiety
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27 people killed in China quarantine bus crash: The crash took place on a highway in Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying 47 people "flipped onto its side ...
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27 people killed in China quarantine bus crash
Quick Glance: A COVID-19 quarantine bus in China collapses, killing 27 people.
  • According to media reports, a bus carrying 47 passengers to COVID-19 quarantine in southwest China crashed early Sunday morning, killing 27 and injuring 20 others.

  • The bus overturned on an expressway in Guizhou province, according to a brief statement from Sandu county police, which made no mention of quarantine.

  • Sandu officials acknowledged the passengers were "epidemic-related people" being transported from Guiyang, the provincial capital, to Lido county, which is some 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast.

  • Following the event, provincial leaders reportedly demanded an investigation into pandemic transfer and isolation measures.
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What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Policy: A New York Times analysis examines the lengths China will go to eliminate Covid infections ...
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What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero Covid’ Policy
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China province puts 1.7 million in Covid lockdown: China placed 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly ...
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China province puts 1.7 million in Covid lockdown
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B.C.'s COVID response praised for 'nimbleness,' calls to bolster public trust: Public Safety Minister says report better allows province to be prepared in the ...
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B.C.'s COVID response praised for 'nimbleness,' calls to bolster public ...
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations rise as third Omicron wave takes hold: B.C. health officials release their weekly update on the latest hospitalizations ...
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations rise as third Omicron wave takes hold
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19 dead in China crash as holiday travel rush gets underway: Victims were mourners from the village of Taoling who had set up a funeral tent on the side of the ...
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19 dead in China crash as holiday travel rush gets underway
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Nine in 10 People in China Province Infected With COVID, Official Says: Henan province has a population of nearly 99 million people, government records show.
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Nine in 10 People in China Province Infected With COVID, Official Says
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China Tourists Overwhelm Attractions as Travel Explodes After Covid: Millions of Chinese travelers thronged major cities and tourist hotspots across the nation ...
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China Tourists Overwhelm Attractions as Travel Explodes After Covid
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COVID-19 tourism industry supports of $41M came with 'minor' shortfalls, says B.C. government
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COVID-19 tourism industry supports of $41M came with 'minor' shortfalls ...
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B.C. CDC drops self-isolation requirements for COVID-19: British Columbians who have COVID-19 are no longer required to self-isolate. Read more about the changes ...
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B.C. CDC drops self-isolation requirements for COVID-19
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Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province: The country recently began to recover from a surge that shut down Shanghai for two months.
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Covid Outbreak Emerges in China’s Anhui Province
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Jeju airport to resume international flights in June : Jeju airport to resume international flights in June
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Jeju airport to resume international flights in June
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COVID-19: About 2,500 B.C. health-care workers lost jobs over refusal to vaccinate
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COVID-19: About 2,500 B.C. health-care workers lost jobs over refusal to ...
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B.C.'s mask mandate dropped as of March 11, vaccination card not required as of April 8
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B.C.'s mask mandate dropped as of March 11, vaccination card not required ...
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Bus overturns on Chinese expressway killing 27 people, injuring dozens: The early morning accident was in Sandu county, which is southeast of the city of Guiyang ...
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Bus overturns on Chinese expressway killing 27 people, injuring dozens
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Oklahoma Supreme Court says Edmond school quarantine policy violated state law: The majority, all Republican appointees, sidestepped the constitutional issue ...
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Oklahoma Supreme Court says Edmond school quarantine policy violated state ...
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Paraiso Playa: The Enigmatic Hotel in Fuerteventura​: Our author is a regular guest of the hotel "SBH Club Paraiso Playa" on Fuerteventura ...
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Paraiso Playa: The Enigmatic Hotel in Fuerteventura​
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China Is Set to Resume Issuing Visas as It Emerges From Covid Zero: China will resume issuing visas to tourists and other foreigners, a significant step in the ...
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China Is Set to Resume Issuing Visas as It Emerges From Covid Zero
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China Is Set to Resume Issuing Visas as It Emerges From Covid Zero: China will resume issuing visas to tourists and other foreigners, a significant step in the ...
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China Is Set to Resume Issuing Visas as It Emerges From Covid Zero
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COVID-19 update for April 8: Some experts advise caution as Covid case numbers creep up | Vaccine passports end today in B.C ...
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COVID-19 update for April 8: Some experts advise caution as Covid case ...
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China’s Once-Sizzling Property Market Has Started to Cool: New home prices in China have fallen, and would-be buyers are thinking twice. That’s bad news for the ...
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China’s Once-Sizzling Property Market Has Started to Cool
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Many leadership positions at risk in Detroit schools as COVID-19 relief dries up: Detroit public schools received $1.3 billion in COVID aid. The loss of those ...
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Many leadership positions at risk in Detroit schools as COVID-19 relief ...
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Province sticks with plan to end all masking mandates despite objections: The provincial government must abandon its plan to end all masking mandates on April 27 ...
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Province sticks with plan to end all masking mandates despite objections
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Teachers seek investment in COVID measures for safe return to in-person classes: The New Brunswick Teachers' Association is calling upon the government to adopt ...
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Teachers seek investment in COVID measures for safe return to in-person ...
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COVID-19 spike locks down Chinese city of 9 million: Amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant ...
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COVID-19 spike locks down Chinese city of 9 million
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COVID-19 update for April 5: Hospitalizations rise again as two new outbreaks reported | B.C. vaccine card mandate to end Friday | B.C ...
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COVID-19 update for April 5: Hospitalizations rise again as two new ...
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Retain nurses before recruiting them from other provinces: association: This week, Horizon Health Network, one of New Brunswick's two health authorities ...
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Retain nurses before recruiting them from other provinces: association
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Here is the front page of the Ottawa Citizen for Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023.
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COVID cases rise in China amid discrepancies between national, local data: China's Zhejiang Province reported more than one million new coronavirus cases on ...
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COVID cases rise in China amid discrepancies between national, local data
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COVID-19: Two years in, B.C. gets mixed reviews for managing pandemic: Experts says B.C.'s middle-of-the-road approach to COVID restrictions resulted in low ...
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COVID-19: Two years in, B.C. gets mixed reviews for managing pandemic
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B.C.'s health minister supports COVID-19 testing for travellers from China: Adrian Dix says the province will continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation ...
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B.C.'s health minister supports COVID-19 testing for travellers from China
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Flu season is already winding down, says B.C. Ministry of Health: Data for early January show influenza cases are declining after an earlier-than-usual peak in ...
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Flu season is already winding down, says B.C. Ministry of Health
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COVID-19: B.C. to offer fourth vaccine doses for elderly, immunocompromised: Dr. Bonnie Henry says vaccination remains the best protection against illness due to ...
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COVID-19: B.C. to offer fourth vaccine doses for elderly, ...
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North Korea deploys national medical teams to battle intestinal epidemic: SEOUL: North Korea has dispatched medical crews and epidemiological investigators to a ...
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North Korea deploys national medical teams to battle intestinal epidemic
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations up, nearly two dozen deaths last week: B.C. health officials release their weekly update on the latest hospitalizations ...
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COVID-19: Hospitalizations up, nearly two dozen deaths last week
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China: Covid surge causes 'blood shortage' | Mint: Covid-19: The Blood Center of Shandong Province, the second most populous in China, has issued red alert ...
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China: Covid surge causes 'blood shortage' | Mint
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COVID-19 cases surge in China's Sichuan Province: More than 60 percent of people surveyed in the Chinese province of Sichuan say they tested positive for ...
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COVID-19 cases surge in China's Sichuan Province
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COVID-19: B.C. moves to weekly COVID reporting, changes how deaths are counted: Weekly reports will focus on identifying meaningful changes in key COVID-19 ...
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COVID-19: B.C. moves to weekly COVID reporting, changes how deaths are ...
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B.C. health professionals ordered to be vaccinated by March 24: Wide range of health workers must be vaccinated or lose their jobs
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B.C. health professionals ordered to be vaccinated by March 24
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DEATH AND DYING IN THE EASTERN CAPE: PART THREE: Province of disaster: Confessions, chaos and spin — responses to the shocking number of Covid-19 deaths
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DEATH AND DYING IN THE EASTERN CAPE: PART THREE: Province of disaster: ...
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B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers: The province says in a statement issued Friday that it is renewing its commitment to ...
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B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers
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COVID-19 update for April 20: Moderna to apply for U.S. emergency use of vaccine for kids 6 months to 5 years | Outbreak at Mountain Institution | FAQs about B ...
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COVID-19 update for April 20: Moderna to apply for U.S. emergency use of ...
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China Eases Some Restrictions on Travel Agencies’ Cross-Province Services : China Eases Some Restrictions on Travel Agencies’ Cross-Province Services - The ...
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China Eases Some Restrictions on Travel Agencies’ Cross-Province Services
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Ontario is reporting 533 people in hospital with COVID-19 : Province of Ontario records three more deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday
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Ontario is reporting 533 people in hospital with COVID-19
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Ontario to eliminate most mask mandates on March 21: "You can’t mandate masking forever. It has to be an individual choice based on risk assessment."
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Ontario to eliminate most mask mandates on March 21
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North Korea facing intestinal disease outbreak amid COVID-19 surge: The outbreak of the "acute enteric disease" was first reported last week in the South ...
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North Korea facing intestinal disease outbreak amid COVID-19 surge
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Canada has more family doctors than ever. Why is it so hard to see them?: Primary care is getting less accessible and involves longer waiting times ...
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Canada has more family doctors than ever. Why is it so hard to see them?
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China locks down city of 9 million amid biggest COVID-19 outbreak in 2 years: Chinese authorities sent a northeastern city of nine million people into lockdown ...
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China locks down city of 9 million amid biggest COVID-19 outbreak in 2 ...
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COVID-19: Six deaths reported Thursday, ICU admissions also up: The number of people in hospital was relatively stable at 255, with 52 of them in ICU ...
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COVID-19: Six deaths reported Thursday, ICU admissions also up
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Province cuts COVID corners amid ‘critical’ staff shortages: Manitoba is loosening its COVID-19 return-to-work guidance for health-care employees — eliminating ...
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Province cuts COVID corners amid ‘critical’ staff shortages
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COVID-19: B.C. divided over easing of restrictions: British Columbians appear split on whether that's a good idea, even as hospitalizations and deaths drop ...
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COVID-19: B.C. divided over easing of restrictions
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Austria province to do COVID-19 lockdown for unvaccinated only: Under the plan, which awaits federal approval, unvaccinated people in Upper Austria can't leave ...
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Austria province to do COVID-19 lockdown for unvaccinated only
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Ontario expands access to COVID-19 antivirals, 'strongly recommends' masking indoors
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Ontario expands access to COVID-19 antivirals, 'strongly recommends' ...
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Medical workers call for more personnel at COVID-19 hospitals : Medical workers call for more personnel at COVID-19 hospitals
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Medical workers call for more personnel at COVID-19 hospitals
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Chinese city Chengdu announces mass COVID-19 testing amid rising cases, locks down 21 million people
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Chinese city Chengdu announces mass COVID-19 testing amid rising cases ...
Quick Glance: After the COVID-19 breakout, China has locked down 21 million citizens in Chengdu.
  • BEIJING, China (AP) – Following an increase of COVID-19 cases, Chinese authorities have closed down Chengdu, a southern city of 21 million people.

  • Millions of people have been confined to their homes in the northeastern city of Dalian, as well as Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, which borders Beijing.

  • China said the curbs are necessary to prevent the virus from spreading further, which was discovered in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.