China locks down city of 300,000 over single Covid case, says report

Hundreds of thousands of people were under lockdown in a small Chinese city Tuesday after just one case of Covid-19 was detected, as Beijing’s strict no-tolerance virus strategy showed no sign of abating. 

China is the last major economy glued to a zero-Covid policy, crushing new outbreaks with snap lockdowns and onerous travel curbs despite mounting public fatigue and damage to the economy. 

Authorities in several regions have imposed a range of restrictions as they struggle to tamp down fresh flare-ups driven by Omicron variant.