China Locks Down Parts of Xi’an as Covid Curbs Ripple

(Bloomberg) — China locked down parts of the metropolis of Xi’an, confining some of the city’s 13 million people to their homes for at least a week, and other major hubs are rolling out virus restrictions in a reinforcement of the country’s commitment to “zero Covid.”

While the entire city won’t be shut down, some areas will be “managed” according to the rules that apply to neighborhoods in China deemed to be of high and medium risk for the virus, according to a local media report posted on the Xi’an government’s official WeChat account late Thursday. The city had 57 high-risk areas as of late Thursday, and 74 medium-risk, a separate post on the government’s WeChat account showed.