By Roxanne Liu and Stella Qiu and Ella Cao and David Stanway
BEIJING (Reuters) – Cities across China are enforcing tougher restrictions to try to control new outbreaks of Covid-19, with Tianjin battling the highly contagious Omicron variant that has been detected in community transmission in two other provinces.
A Tianjin official told a press briefing on Tuesday that 49 locally transmitted cases with confirmed symptoms were detected during the latest outbreak. The city of 14 million people about 100 kilometers from Beijing is now implementing tough restrictions to control the spread of the coronavirus, especially to neighboring Beijing.
Tianjinm, which tightly controls people leaving the city, has ordered indoor spaces such as gyms and bars closed in a district of 800,000 people.
The outbreak in Tianjin has been linked to cases in the city of Anyang in central Henan province, where 84 infections have been confirmed since Saturday.
Anyang, who on Monday reported two local Omicron infections traced back to a student who arrived from Tianjin, has ordered its 5.5 million residents to stay at home unless they have to be tested for Covid-19 or because of jobs in essential sectors.
The country’s Omicron outbreak comes just weeks before the Lunar New Year holiday, a period of travel for millions of people, and cities across China are recommending people stay home, especially as Beijing prepares to welcome the Winter Olympics early next month.
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