The Chinese mainland and Hong Kong are the last holdouts of the so-called Covid Zero approach. - Reuters
BEIJING (Bloomberg): A Chinese man has been fined 200,000 yuan (US$31,000) and given a two-year suspended prison sentence after concealing contact with Covid patients and flouting quarantine, as the country toughens restrictions in an uphill battle to eliminate the virus.
The man, surnamed Cao, didn’t disclose having stayed in a hotel with Covid patients and that he developed a fever and other Covid-related symptoms during a business trip to Vietnam, according to local media reports.
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