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Added on the 30/12/2022 21:58:34 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Residents of Boston, Massachusetts, line up at a Covid-19 testing site as the United States experiences a surge in coronavirus cases. IMAGES
Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world's biggest plane, comes back to Ukraine from China with medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. IMAGES
"An ongoing surge in China is not anticipated to significantly impact the COVID-19 epidemiological situation in the WHO European Region" says the World Health Organization's European regional director, Hans Kluge. "The surge of two virus variants circulating in China are those that have already been seen in Europe and elsewhere," he adds. China is battling a wave of Covid cases since the government's decision to lift nearly three years of restrictions. SOUNDBITE
Images show closed Covid booths in Beijing as cases surge in the Chinese capital. The country is navigating a rapid turn away from its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy, unwinding years of hardline restrictions. IMAGES
Residents in a locked down compound line up for Covid tests as Shanghai logs 39 Covid deaths Sunday, its highest daily toll despite weeks of lockdowns. IMAGES
Workers in PPE test residents, including elderly and children, in a locked-down Shanghai residential district. Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid policy. Residents locked down since early April have complained of food shortages and over-zealous officials forcing them into state quarantine, as authorities rush to construct tens of thousands of beds to house Covid-19 patients with daily infections topping 20,000. IMAGES
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