BEIJING (AFP) – Beijing recorded its highest number of new COVID-19 cases for a year and a half on yesterday, as the Chinese capital gears up to host the Winter Olympics in five days.
China will hold the Games in a strict “closed-loop” bubble as part of its zero-COVID strategy of targetted lockdowns, border restrictions and lengthy quarantines.
The approach has helped the world’s second-largest economy keep new infections far lower than many other countries, but it is battling local outbreaks in several cities as well as in the Olympic bubble.
More details on Monday Borneo Bulletin
