China is holding fast to Covid Zero, even as more infectious variants require increasingly stringent restrictions that are upending growth and business activity. - AP
BEIJING (Bloomberg): China is enforcing lockdown restrictions in areas around Beijing more intensively, and will mass test the nearby port city of Tianjin, stepping up its quest to wipe out Covid-19 ahead of a key meeting of the Communist Party’s top leaders.
The moves come even as officials seem to be getting the national case load under control, with 1,556 new infections reported for Sunday (Aug 28) in the community. Despite the progress, the country remains focused on eliminating transmission of a virus that most of the world has now accepted as endemic.
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