Coronavirus in China: residents of five Beijing neighbourhoods told to stay home

The residents of five neighbourhoods in a southern district of Beijing and schoolchildren across the city have been told to stay at home as health authorities in the Chinese capital fight to bring the latest Covid-19 outbreak under control.The communities are all in Daxing, which is home to the city’s second airport and where six new cases were confirmed on Tuesday. The only other case reported in the city that day was in Shunyi district, which is home to Beijing’s main airport, Capital…

This post was originally published on South China Morning Post.