Chinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents
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By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau The Chinese metropolis of Chengdu will impose a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining 21 million residents to their homes as the country doubles down on its zero-Covid policy ahead of a key Communist Party meeting.
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China imposes Covid-19 lockdowns for millions around Beijing
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Chinese metropolis of Chengdu locks down 21 million residents
Millions of people in areas surrounding China's capital were ordered into lockdown Tuesday, with authorities doubling down on efforts to contain Covid-19
BEIJING (AP) -- China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19, authorities reported Tuesday, as
The measures affect about 3 million people in the city of Dalian, along with an undisclosed number in in Hebei province several hours from capital Beijing.
Some 21 million people have been ordered to stay home in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu following a spike in COVID-19 cases. Flights have been suspended to and from
By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau The Chinese metropolis of Chengdu will impose a sweeping city-wide lockdown on Thursday evening, confining 21 million residents to their homes as the country doubles down on its zero-Covid policy ahead of a key Communist Party meeting.
Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from Thursday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.
A Chinese city of more than 21 million people is under a government lockdown ordered amid a new COVID-19 outbreak. Residents of Chengdu are permitted to send just one person per day from their households to shop for necessities
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