A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP
A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP
China /  Science

Transport into Beijing cut to guard capital ‘at all costs’ against Covid-19 surge

  • More than 350 people in 27 cities have been infected with the highly transmissible Delta strain in latest outbreak, including seven in Wuhan on Monday
  • Four cases reported in the capital, where authorities have barred anyone from medium- and high-risk areas from entering

Topic |   Coronavirus China
Zhuang Pinghui
Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing

Updated: 12:02am, 3 Aug, 2021

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A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP
A resident gets tested in Nanjing on Monday as the country grapples with its most widespread outbreak in months. Photo: AFP
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