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Images of police in PPE and a street in Shanghai as the city records a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday. Millions are enduring a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half confined to their homes for four days and subjected to mandatory testing. China reported 6,886 domestic Covid cases nationwide on Tuesday, with more than 4,400 of them detected in Shanghai, now the centre of the country's worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. IMAGES
Images of reduced traffic on a street in China's largest city Shanghai under a lattice of restrictions -- which fall short of a citywide shutdown. China reported 5,280 new Covid-19 cases nationwide on Tuesday, more than double the previous day's tally as the highly-transmissible Omicron variant spreads across a country which has tethered tightly to a 'zero-Covid' strategy. IMAGES
Scene at London's King's Cross station around 08H30 local time on the first day of the advised return to working from home, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced last week to combat the Omicron variant. IMAGES
Shops reopen on London's Oxford Street as Britain takes another tentative step towards the resumption of normal life, in a major easing of coronavirus restrictions in England. IMAGES of Oxford Street
Snow hits London's Oxford street as the capital experiences rare snowfall. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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