New lockdown affects 5M Chinese

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 12, 2022 12:13 am

BEIJING: Five million residents of a central Chinese city started home confinement Tuesday in a new lockdown to curb the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to state media.

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