Chinese port city near North Korea beefs up Covid 19 controls

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BEIJING - A key Chinese port city near the border with North Korea has rolled out regular Covid-19 testing for all 7.

5 million inhabitants as its isolated neighbour grapples with a spiralling outbreak.that has left the capital Beijing under a mosaic of restrictions and confined most of the 25 million residents of Shanghai to their homes for weeks.

"This is the first I've heard of splitting Covid-19 tests by gender," a social media user wrote on the Weibo platform. Other Chinese cities also tightened restrictions in the wake of North Korea's blooming outbreak, with the northern port of Tianjin partly closing its subway system"in accordance with the needs of disease control", state broadcaster CCTV reported on Wednesday .

 

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