China takes soft approach to lockdown as coronavirus cases rise

China reported nine new domestically transmitted Covid-19 cases for Monday, the highest daily tally since the end of September, with the latest outbreak prompting two northern border areas into a lockdown.Under a national policy of zero tolerance of domestic coronavirus clusters, cities with new infections have quickly tracked down and tested contacts of infections and sealed off higher-risk areas.Five of the nine new local cases were found in Xian in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, and…

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