As mass testing begins, Beijing residents are stocking up and clearing shelves.
ABC News’ Britt Clennett examines life inside Shanghai, China as the city forces 25 million people into lockdown over the latest omicron surge, despite the economic and social toll.HONG KONG -- A new COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing is raising fears that China’s capital could be sent into a hard lockdown, like the one in Shanghai that’s entering a fifth week.
China's daily cases rose 4% to 20,194 on Monday, most of them in Shanghai. The city has now recorded 506,000 infections since the start of March.Customers shop in front of a half-empty freezer for diary products, following the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing, China, April 25, 2022. The Chinese leader has made it clear before that he wants to keep the capital city COVID-free. A lockdown in Beijing would add political strain to a strategy of which the economic and social costs are growing by the day.Chinese stocks dropped to the lowest levels in two years Monday over fears of more curbs to the nation's capital.
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