As China Covid-19 cases rise, millions more placed under lockdown

Wave of infections to put a damper on February's Lunar New Year holiday, when millions of people travel home

China posted its biggest daily jump in Covid cases in more than five months on Wednesday, stepping up containment measures that have seen four cities put under lockdown, as the world’s second-biggest economy scrambles to head off a new wave of infections.
 
Most of the new cases were reported near the capital, Beijing, but a province in the far northeast also saw a rise in infections, official data showed, amid a resurgence that has seen more than 28 million people put under home quarantine.
 
While the Chinese city of Wuhan was the initial epicenter of the novel coronavirus,