While the Chinese capital has recorded only a few hundred cases in recent weeks, the move to reopen the facility appears to be aimed at avoiding the fate of Shanghai.
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Beijing Reopens Mass Isolation Center In Attempt to Avoid Broad Lockdown
While the Chinese capital has recorded only a few hundred cases in recent weeks, the move to reopen the facility appears to be aimed at avoiding the fate of Shanghai.
Beijing Covid Outbreak: New Restrictions Imposed, but No Full Lockdown
Officials in China’s capital are striving to contain a coronavirus outbreak while avoiding public anger of the kind that has erupted in Shanghai.
Inside China’s Zero-Covid Fortress, Xi Admits No Doubts
As the lockdown of Shanghai and outbreaks in Beijing and elsewhere batter the economy, China’s leader keeps a distance from the politically charged issue.
Beijing Closes Schools as It Tries to Contain an Outbreak
The city is heading into a long holiday weekend, and officials are discouraging travel and unnecessary gatherings.
Beijing Has 138 Covid Cases. It Musters 139,000 Workers to Test Residents.
Residents of the Chinese capital face mandatory P.C.R. tests but no mass lockdown yet, while large inland cities may be closed down in response to as few as two infections.
China’s Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Propaganda
Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.
Your Wednesday Briefing: Beijing’s Mass Testing Plan
Plus more aggressive support for Ukraine and Hong Kong’s brownface controversy.
China’s Covid Strategy: Test Most Residents in Beijing Amid Lockdown Fears
China’s capital reported 22 cases as it kicked off an ambitious mandatory testing campaign across the city and reassured residents that food and other supplies were plentiful.
Covid Outbreak in Beijing Prompts Order for Nearly Citywide Testing
Supermarkets stocked up as panic buying began. Municipal authorities ordered that almost all residents be tested three times this week to contain a rising number of cases.