City of Nanjing isolated as China fights worst Covid outbreak in months

Flights have reportedly been cancelled and checkpoints set up to verify travellers’ health status amid Delta

Health authorities in China have set up checkpoints and reportedly suspended flights in the eastern city of Nanjing in the country’s worst coronavirus emergency in months.

More than 170 people have been diagnosed with the Delta variant in the past 10 days. The main outbreak is centred on Nanjing, in Jiangsu province, but connected cases have reportedly been identified in Beijing and other provinces including Anhui, Liaoning, Sichuan and Guangdong.

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Source: The Guardian