Millions tested in Shanghai as China grapples COVID resurgence

  SHANGHAI/BEIJING - Millions of people in Shanghai queued for a third day of mass COVID-19 testing on Thursday as authorities in several Chinese cities scrambled to stamp out new outbreaks that have rekindled worries about growth in the world's second-largest economy. Unless local officials succeed in preventing the virus from spreading, they could be compelled to invoke prolonged, major restrictions on residents' movement, under China's "dynamic zero COVID" strategy. The country's most populous city, Shanghai, has just emerged from a painful two-month lockdown and is again on high alert - racing to isolate infections linked to karaoke services that had been taking pla...

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