'A week of anxiety': Xi'an residents hunker down for city lockdown

Beijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2021

Taking crucial exams in lockdown, adapting to home-schooling and cancelling family reunions - Xi'an residents are enduring a near-total city closure to curb a tiny outbreak, as China presses on with its zero-Covid strategy ahead of the Winter Olympics. The city transformed as all 13 million residents were ordered to stay home: streets emptied, people formed long lines at Covid-19 testing st