People line up at nucleic acid test center at a hospital following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The capital and largest city in northern China's Hebei province barred people from leaving on Thursday in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus as the country reported the biggest rise in daily infections in more than five months.
Hebei accounted for 51 of the 52 local cases reported by the National Health Commission on Thursday. This compared with 20 cases reported in the province, which surrounds Beijing, a day earlier.
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