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China battles multiple COVID-19 outbreaks, driven by ‘stealth omicron’ variant

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China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.The National Health Commission reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases in the latest 24-hour period, including 895 in the industrial province of Jilin.

A government notice said that police permission would be required for people to leave the area or travel from one city to another.The hard-hit province sent 7,000 reservists to help with the response, from keeping order and registering people at testing centers to using drones to carry out aerial spraying and disinfection, state broadcaster CCTV reported.Hundreds of cases were reported in other provinces and cities along China’s east coast and inland as well.

Beijing, which had six news cases, and Shanghai, with 41, locked down residential and office buildings where infected people had been found.“Every day when I go to work, I worry that if our office building will suddenly be locked down then I won’t be able to get home, so I have bought a sleeping bag and stored some fast food in the office in advance, just in case,” said Yimeng Li, a Shanghai resident.

2 years into COVID-19 pandemic, world cautiously looks to move forward While mainland China’s numbers are small compared to many other countries, and even the semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong, they are the highest since COVID-19 killed thousands in the central city of Wuhan in early 2020.

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