China is battling its highest variety of coronavirus infections for the reason that starting of the pandemic. The variety of formally reported circumstances stays minuscule, in contrast with that of many international locations. However with high leaders touting a “covid zero” strategy, native officers are beneath intense stress to halt the unfold earlier than the Winter Olympics start in Beijing subsequent month. On Sunday, the town of Tianjin close to the capital started mass testing of all its 14 million residents after two circumstances of the omicron variant have been detected, in line with state media. Residents stood in lengthy strains bundled up in opposition to the chilly to take the assessments.
