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New Covid-19 cases in the locked-down Chinese city of Xi'an fell to their lowest in a week, health officials said Sunday, as residents face their eleventh day under strict home confinement.

China has followed a zero Covid" approach involving tight border restrictions and swift, targeted lockdowns since the virus first surfaced in a central city in late 2019 - but this strategy has been put under pressure in recent weeks with a number of local outbreaks and cases remaining stubbornly high, AFP reports.

We will also make some adjustments to the prevention and control measures in a timely way.

The government does need to get its act together on the supply of testing.

And I think the health secretary needs to explain why it was that only three weeks ago he told me in the House of Commons that availability of tests wasn't a problem. And yet now it so clearly is.