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China placed a third city under lockdown on Thursday to tackle COVID-19 numbers, with around six million people now under orders to stay home as Beijing chases zero cases before the upcoming Winter Olympics.
Although the hard-line measures have kept the number of new cases far lower than most countries, the world’s most populous nation is currently grappling with small outbreaks in at least eleven provinces.
The resurgence prompted officials this week to lock down Lanzhou city – with a population of over four million – and Ejin in the Inner Mongolia region.