Beijing steps up Covid measures as cases quadruple during key CCP congress meeting

Residential compounds with suspected cases put under lockdown as outbreak coincides with crucial political event for president Xi Jinping Communist party congress: everything you need to know China's capital, Beijing, has dialled up measures to stop Covid, strengthening public checks and locking down some residential compounds after a quadrupling of its cases in recent weeks, just as a key Communist party congress entered full swing. The city of 21 million people on Thursday reported 18 new loca...