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China Locks Down City on Russian Border – SCMP

Contact tracing is being done to determine the extent of a Covid outbreak in Manzhouli with mass testing due to begin for the city’s 300,000 residents and people told not to leave their homes


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China has approved Pfizer's Paxlovid and Brii Biosciences's antibody-based medicine for mild and moderate Covid patients with high risk of progressing to severe conditions. Photo: CNSphoto via Reuters.

 

Officials in Manzhouli in China’s Inner Mongolia have shut schools, stopped public transport, entertainment, dine-in services and group gatherings, according to the South China Morning Post.

Contact tracing is being done to determine the extent of a Covid-19 outbreak and mass testing due to begin for Manzhouli’s 300,000 residents, with people told not to leave their homes, it said on Saturday (November 27).

Read the full story: SCMP.

 

 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years.