China's Harbin to conduct city-wide COVID-19 tests ahead of Chinese New Year holiday

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SHANGHAI: China\u0027s northeastern city of Harbin will conduct a city-wide exercise to test its roughly 10 million people for COVID-19 from Monday (Jan 25), although it has had no recent cases, calling it an pre-emptive move ahead of the long Chinese New Year holiday. The city government said on its official W

Many cities have advised residents to stay put or requiring travellers to report their trips days before their arrival.

"It is human nature to return home during the Spring Festival for reunions, so why is it malicious?," the official People's Daily newspaper said on its Weibo account. Mainland China reported 63 new COVID-19 cases on Jan 21, down from 73 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday.

 

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