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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 city of some 11 million also suspended subway services and halted non-essential business operations in the locked-down districts. The province, home to many workers who commute to the Chinese capital, reported 45 Covid-19 cases for Sunday.The partial lockdown of Shijiazhuang follows the imposition of restrictions elsewhere in Hebei last week.
An outbreak in Tianjin, some 30 minutes by high-speed train from Beijing, saw the authorities order a city-wide mass test, according to state television. The port hub had reported 31 local Covid-19 cases for Sunday. Beijing itself reported one local case for Sunday.China is holding fast to Covid Zero, even as more infectious variants require increasingly stringent restrictions that are upending growth and business activity.
Border restrictions remain in place, as well, with quarantine still required on entry and strict parameters for airlines flying into the country.
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