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BEIJING (AFP) - China on Sunday (March 20) imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country's north-east as it battles its biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years. The country has largely kept Covid-19 at bay since it brought to heel its initial outbreak in...

Since March 11, Changchun's nine million people have only been allowed out once every two days to buy food.

The new measures mean only medical personnel and other anti-epidemic workers will be authorised to leave their homes.Tens of millions of people are currently in lockdown in other Chinese regions and the authorities are scrambling to create hospital beds, fearing the outbreak could put the healthcare system under strain.East of the capital Beijing, the city of Tangshan banned traffic for 24 hours on Sunday in an effort to slow the virus' spread - and will test all its 7.7 million people.

 

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