China: More than 1.7 million locked down in China's Anhui province due to new Covid-19 breakout

Healthcare worker in protective gear assist residents for Covid-19 tests in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, July 3, 2022. China's virus cases continued to climb over the weekend with hundreds of infections detected in Anhui province, where two counties were already in lockdown. - Bloomberg

BEIJING, July 4, 2022 (AFP) - China placed more than 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly 300 new cases Monday in the latest of a string of outbreaks testing Beijing's no-tolerance approach to Covid-19.

The country is the last major economy wedded to a zero-Covid strategy, responding to all cases with strict isolation orders and tough testing campaigns.