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With the Winter Olympics in Beijing scheduled to start in early February, China is sticking more than ever to its anti-Covid-19 measures, some of the strictest in the world. The city of Xi’an has been on lockdown for nearly 15 days, all due to fewer than 2,000 reported coronavirus cases. Only a handful of cases of the Omicron variant have been identified so far, all of them from abroad.
To combat the virus, China has closed its borders for nearly two years and locked down entire cities at the slightest outbreak, with mass testing and contact tracing.
Since the start of the pandemic, the country has officially recorded fewer than 6,000 Covid-19 deaths in a population of 1.4 billion. So how are these drastic measures perceived in China? Report from our correspondents.
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