China battles Omicron outbreak weeks before Winter Olympics
by Helen Davidson in Taipei from World news | The Guardian on (#5TVA4)
Outbreak comes as country also prepares for lunar new year holiday, when millions of people normally travel to see family
China is battling to stamp out its first outbreak of the Omicron variant, only weeks before the Chinese new year and the Beijing Winter Olympics, with cases recorded in at least two distant provinces.
On Monday, health authorities reported 97 new locally transmitted cases for the preceding 24 hours, across several cities. At least 30 cases were in Henan province, while 21 new cases were reported in the Tianjin district of Jinnan, including 15 children aged five to 15.
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