Residents wearing face masks line up at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site during a mass testing for the coronavirus disease , in Chaoyang district of Beijing, China March 14, 2022.Residents wearing face masks line up at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site during a mass testing for the coronavirus disease , in Chaoyang district of Beijing, China March 14, 2022.
As it tries to get parts of the city moving again, the government has divided residential units into three categories. “We also hope all citizens and friends will continue to support and cooperate with the city’s epidemic prevention and control work,” Gu told a news briefing. It was misleading to characterise Omicron as “big flu” and lowering China’s guard would expose its huge elderly population to risk, especially as the virus mutates, Liang said on a visit to the southern city.