Residents line up to undergo a Covid-19 test in Tianjin Municipality, China, 09 January 2022. The city of Tianjin reported 20 new Covid-19 cases on 09 January, mostly students and their family members. (Photo by GT/EPA/EFE/China Stringer Network)
Fishermen net fish at Fairy Lake on January 8, 2022 in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province of China. (Photo by Zhao Chunliang/VCG via Getty Images)
Hairdressers wearing protected suits cut residents’ hair at a residential block which has become under lockdown in Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi province on Sunday, January 9, 2022. A major Chinese city near Beijing has placed its 14 million residents on partial lockdown after a number of children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. Elsewhere, millions of people are being confined to their homes in Xi’an and Yuzhou, two cities that are farther away but have larger outbreaks traced to the delta variant. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)
A worker sets up an installation featuring Bing Dwen Dwen, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Mascot and Shuey Rhon Rhon, the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games Mascot, in Beijing, China on January 11, 2022. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)
Staff members wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) spray disinfectant outside a shopping mall in Xi’an in north China’s Shaanxi province on January 11, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)
A family wearing face masks to protect from the coronavirus ride an electric-powered scooter on a street in Beijing, Sunday, January 9, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a volunteer wearing a face mask to protect from the coronavirus uses a loud speaker to give advise to masked residents as they line up for the coronavirus test during a mass testing in north China’s Tianjin municipality, Sunday, January 9, 2022. Tianjin, a major Chinese city near Beijing has placed its 14 million residents on partial lockdown after 41 children and adults tested positive for COVID-19, including at least two with the omicron variant. (Photo by Sun Fanyue/Xinhua via AP Photo)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a delivery man rides through a quiet street in Xi’an,, in northwestern China’s Shaanxi Province, January 10, 2022. Xi’an, a city of 13 million people, is one of the Chinese city currently under lock down because of COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by Tao Ming/Xinhua via AP Photo)
A resident wearing a mask exercises with collared ribbon in Beijing, China, Tuesday, January 11, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
Residents wearing masks walk their dog along an alley way in Beijing, China, Tuesday, January 11, 2022. The Chinese capital is on high alert ahead of the Winter Olympics as China locks down a third city elsewhere for COVID-19 outbreak. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)
This aerial photo taken on January 11, 2022 shows residents skating on a frozen lake in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)
Residents pass fruits across a barrier at a community in Huaxian county in central China’s Henan province Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Millions of Chinese are under lockdown in cities under the strict “dynamic zero-case policy” that has allowed China to largely contain major outbreaks, although at considerable cost to local economies. (Photo by Chinatopix via AP Photo)
This photo taken on January 11, 2022 shows residents skating on a frozen lake in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)
Commuters wearing face masks to help protect against the coronavirus walk across an intersection in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, January 13, 2022. Just weeks before hosting the Beijing Winter Olympics, China is battling multiple coronavirus outbreaks in half a dozen cities, with the one closest to the capital driven by the highly transmissible omicron variant. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
