Major Chinese port city Tianjin begins testing its population of around 14 million after at least 2 local cases of the highly-transmissible omicron variant were detected, state media reports.
Residents in four districts would be tested over the next 24 hours while other districts would be tested the next day, the Tianjin government said.
Residents will only get the green health code necessary to travel once they receive a negative result, it said. The city advised residents not to leave town for unnecessary reasons, the government said late on Saturday.The Tianjin outbreak poses risks to Beijing and the upcoming, because of the large number of commuters working and living in the two cities, the state-owned Global Times said, citing an unnamed immunologist.
It comes after the local transmission of the imported omicron variant was found in the southern city of Guangzhou, according to a national health official in December, though the number of cases was not disclosed.
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