BEIJING, Oct 19 (Bloomberg): China’s latest Covid-19 outbreak, centered around a rule-breaking elderly couple enjoying China’s tourist sites, has now spread to the closely-guarded capital city of Beijing.
The flareup that surfaced over the weekend has been tied to two retired university lecturers from Shanghai who started a road trip with several others through the nation’s scenic northwestern provinces in early October, according to media reports.
The pathogen proliferated, sparking a handful of local cases in Gansu Province in recent days.
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