Covid-19: China locks down another three million people after travelling salesman spreads virus | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Nearly three million people were put under lockdown in China Monday after a surge in coronavirus cases linked to a travelling salesman in the country’s northeast.
While China has largely brought the virus under control, a sharp rise in cases in the past few weeks has prompted fresh lockdowns, travel restrictions and multiple rounds of mass testing.
Residents undergoing Covid-19 coronavirus tests at a makeshift testing centre inside a residential compound in Shijiazhuang, in northern Hebei province, as part of a mass testing programme after the province declared an “emergency state”. Photo: STR/AFP
Monday saw three million residents of two cities in northeastern Jilin province placed under new measures, as China reported 109 new infections.
More than 19 million people across China’s northeast are now barred from leaving their homes, and in some cases can only apply for permission to go grocery shopping once every three days.
Authorities have traced over a hundred infections in Jilin …