China's Tianjin testing all residents after omicron found

BEIJING – Tianjin, a large Chinese larboard metropolis adjacent the superior Beijing, began wide investigating of its 14 cardinal residents connected Sunday aft a clump of 20 children and adults tested affirmative for COVID-19, including astatine slightest 2 with the omicron variant.

Those infected see 15 students from 8 to 13 years old, a unit subordinate astatine an after-school halfway and 4 parents. The citywide investigating is to beryllium completed implicit 2 days.

China has stepped up its zero tolerance COVID-19 strategy successful the run-up to the Winter Olympics, which unfastened Feb. 4 successful Beijing. The Chinese superior is 115 kilometers (70 miles) northwest of Tianjin and connected by a high-speed obstruction nexus that takes little than 1 hour.

Millions of radical are being confined to their homes successful Xi'an and Yuzhou, 2 different cities that are farther distant but person larger outbreaks. The metropolis of Zhengzhou, a provincial superior 70 kilometers (40 miles) northbound of Yuzhou, is besides conducting wide investigating and closing schools starting Monday.

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The archetypal 2 cases confirmed successful Tianjin were a 10-year-old miss and a 29-year-old pistillate moving astatine the after-school center. Both were infected by the omicron variant. In consequent investigating of adjacent contacts, 18 others tested affirmative and 767 tested antagonistic arsenic of Saturday night.

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