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		</div><p>China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an following a spike in coronavirus cases.</p>
<p>The measure comes just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympics in Beijing, roughly 621 miles to the west.</p>
<p>There was no word on whether the virus was the newly surging omicron variant or the far more common delta.</p>
<p>China has recorded just seven omicron cases: four in the southern manufacturing centre of Guangzhou, two in the southern city of Changsha and one in the northern port of Tianjin.</p>
<p>China has also been dealing with a substantial outbreak in several cities in the eastern province of Zhejiang near Shanghai, although isolation measures there have been more narrowly targeted.</p>
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<p>Authorities have adopted strict pandemic control measures under their policy of seeking to drive new transmissions to zero, leading to frequent lockdowns, universal masking and mass testing.</p>
<p>While the policy has not been entirely successful, leading to massive disruptions in travel and trade, Beijing credits it with largely containing the spread of the virus.</p>
<p>The Xi’an restrictions are some of the harshest since China in 2020 imposed a strict lockdown on more than 11 million people in and around the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected in late 2019.</p>
<p>Xi’an on Thursday reported another 63 locally transmitted cases, pushing the city’s total to at least 211 over the past week.</p>
<p>Xi’an is the capital of Shaanxi province, famed for its imperial relics, as well as a major centre of industry.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
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<p>“Including the guests, we are required to take a test once every two days,” Li said. “There will be an impact on our business and we have no idea how long it will last.”</p>
<p>The owner of a local bookshop said he had closed 10 days before “fearing the worsening of the epidemic situation”.</p>
<p>“I am now staying at home watching television,” said the owner, who gave only his surname, Xiao.</p>
<p>Movement outside his premises required permission from the local neighbourhood committee, he said.</p>
<p>“I think the situation will get better eventually, and I don’t worry at all because we have the government behind us,” Xiao said.</p>
<p>One person from each household will be allowed out every two days to buy household necessities, a government order said. It took effect at midnight Wednesday, with no word on when it might be lifted.</p>
<p>China has reported 4,636 deaths among a total of 100,644 cases of Covid-19.</p>
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