Beijing school pupils in lockdown after staff tests positive for Covid
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from on (#5RF2D)
Parents alarmed as children held overnight before some sent to centralised quarantine for two weeks
Children as young as seven were held for hours in a Beijing school before being sent to centralised quarantine for two weeks after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.
The incident, which drew alarm from parents and observers, came amid a rush of extreme measures imposed on the city over about 40 cases of the Delta variant, part of a national outbreak affecting at least 16 of China's 31 provinces. Tighter curbs are expected after the National Health Commission reported a near three-month high on Tuesday, with 93 new local symptomatic cases, up from 54 a day earlier.
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