The measure comes just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The Associated PressA worker collects a throat swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site in the Chinese city of Xi'an on Thursday. The country has ordered millions of people to lockdown there following a spike in coronavirus cases.There was no word on whether the virus was the newly surging Omicron variant or the far more common Delta.
Commuters exit a subway station in the central business district in Beijing on Thursday. The lockdown measures in Xi'an come just weeks before the city hosts the Winter Olympics. "We are not receiving any new guests and no present guests are allowed to leave the hotel," said a receptionist at the Hanting Hotel in Xi'an, who only gave her surname, Li.
Visitors pose with a statue containing the Olympic rings at a Beijing park on Dec. 16. China has been dealing with a substantial outbreak in several cities in the eastern province of Zhejiang near Shanghai.
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