Chinese city offers cash reward for tips on people dodging Covid tests

A Chinese city is offering monetary rewards to anyone who reports someone who has not taken a recent Covid test. The city of Nangong in northern China will pay people 500 yuan (£57) if they denounce a resident who has evaded a coronavirus test. The city and surrounding province of Hebei are being tested as part of an effort to curb China’s most recent outbreak of the virus. Anyone found to have not complied with the new rules will be forced to take a test and quarantine for two weeks. They...