Beijing launches mass testing to stem virus outbreak

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Beijing on Friday kicked off a drive to test two million people in 48 hours as the city rushed to snuff out a new local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a more contagious virus variant.

Long queues snaked through the Chinese capital — which reported 19 coronavirus cases in the past week — as the mass testing campaign got under way in Dongcheng and Xicheng districts.

“I received the notification this morning and thought I’d come during lunch hour; but there are so many people here in line,” one Dongcheng resident said. “I queued for three hours and finally got tested,” one user said on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform. A partial lockdown is already in place in the city’s southern Daxing district, where five neighbourhoods have been ordered to remain indoors and all 1.6 million residents have been told not to leave the city.

 

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