People wait in line to receive Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination booster shots along a street in Beijing on Saturday, October 30, 2021. - AFP
Beijing, Oct 30 (AFP): Beijing officials on Friday night (Oct 29) told residents to postpone weddings and keep funeral ceremonies short, as disease controls across China were tightened just months before the Winter Olympics kicks off in the capital.
The world's most populous nation has reduced infection numbers to a trickle since its initial epidemic last spring thanks to a zero-tolerance approach of border closures, targeted lockdowns and long quarantine periods.
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