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Coronavirus casts a shadow over Chinese New Year for another year as cases rise
Tanya Tong has two weeks to weigh up whether to see her parents for the Chinese New Year, as a small but persistent resurgence of the virus creates déjà vu one year on from the COVID-19 outbreak, scuttling celebrations across the country.
Key points:
- China is currently recording about 200 COVID-19 cases a day
- That’s the highest level of infection since March 2020
- Beijing wants to vaccinate all medical workers, couriers, cleaners and customs staff by mid-February
The 28-year-old office worker in Beijing is pondering the four-hour flight back to Urumqi — the capital of the Xinjiang region in China’s far west.
But the renewed outbreaks in northern China’s bitterly cold winter, which authorities are partly blaming on imported products, are…
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