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Mega City Chengdu Anncouced Lockdown To Battle Covid

CHINA PRESS
MNI (Singapore)

Chengdu in Southwest China, a major city with a population of over 20 million, is the latest to order residents to stay home from 6 pm on Thursday, amid a rising number of Covid-19 infections, Caixin reported. The city will roll out a large nucleic acid testing programme from Sep 1 to 4, with each family arranging for one person with a negative test result within 24 hours to go out once a day for necessities, the newspaper said. It has reported a total of 766 infections since Aug 25, and this round of infections spreading rapidly, the newspaper noted.

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