Officials in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian are facing punishment after a COVID-19 outbreak led to the lockdown of its 13 million residents, authorities said Friday, as the number of new cases declined.
Since Thursday, each Xian household has been limited to sending only one person to shop for necessities every two days, while others may not leave unless they have essential jobs.While the number of local symptomatic cases in Xianand in China overall is tiny compared with outbreaks elsewhere, authorities have used heavy-handed measures that have for the most part succeeded at preventing localized outbreaks from spreading.
The country has all but shut its borders to international arrivals, and those coming for the Games will be sequestered inside a strictly-enforced “closed-loop.”
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