Beijing enforces lockdowns, expands COVID-19 mass testing

By KEN MORITSUGU
Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Police and new fencing are restricting who can leave a locked-down area in Beijing, where authorities are trying to prevent a major COVID-19 outbreak. People lined up for throat swabs Tuesday as mass-testing expanded to most of the Chinese capital. Beijing has reported 92 cases of coronavirus infection in five days, a relatively tiny figure in a city with 21 million residents. But China trying to eliminate outbreaks entirely in contrast to how much of the world is trying to live with the virus. That zero-tolerance policy has virtually shut down China’s largest city, Shanghai, for three weeks, disrupting food supplies for residents as well as global supply chains.