China tests millions as COVID-19 clusters emerge

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    China tests millions as COVID-19 clusters emerge
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    • China’s health authorities are staging an extensive contract tracing and testing effort, after two more workers at Shanghai airport tested positive for COVID-19
    • The latest cases follow another positive case on Friday, also from a worker in the airport, bringing locally transmitted cases in the city to seven
    • In response, China’s National Health Commission began testing the airport's entire 17,000 staff to help stem the spread of the virus
    • New cases have also been recorded in the Chinese cities of Tianjin and Manzhoul, which has led the government to test more than 2.2 million residents and implement widespread shutdown measures
    • Officials are warning that the low winter temperatures in China could encourage the virus to spread quicker, adding to the governments’ calls for a rapid response

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