Beijing shuts museums, parks as China’s Covid-19 cases rise

Workers in protective suits prepare to enter a building under lockdown to distribute to residents antigen testing kits for Covid-19, at a residential compound in Beijing's Chaoyang district, China November 21, 2022. China Daily via Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters): Beijing shut parks and museums on Tuesday (Nov 22) while more Chinese cities resumed mass testing for Covid-19, as China fights a fresh nationwide spike in cases that has deepened concerns about its economy.

China has reported 28,127 new local cases nationally for Monday, nearing its daily infection peak in April, with cases in the southern city of Guangzhou and the south-western municipality of Chongqing account for about half of the total.