China’s latest cluster outbreak in Beijing, at 137 cases over the last six days, is the worst resurgence of the coronavirus since early February.
It came as a bit of a surprise, ending a nearly two-month streak of zero cases in the country’s capital.
Authorities have taken no chances, immediately moving to institute partial lockdowns by quarantining housing compounds with infections, halting outbound transport links, and closing schools – again.
Our correspondent in China offers us a glimpse of what life is like with the new rules.
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