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    On Guard, En Garde!

    Apr 07, 2022 4 minutes
    By Lu Yan

    At a press conference on March 29, Liu Renyuan, Deputy Secretary General of the municipal government of Changchun, capital of Jilin Province, expressed apologies for the grocery shortages related to lockdowns, and more specifically the closure of two vegetable wholesale markets during the city’s most recent COVID-19 resurgence.

    “We are particularly anxious and concerned and we want to express our sincerest apologies to the public for the inconvenience caused,” Liu said.

    Since early March, Changchun, with a population of over 8 million, has been tackling complex challenges brought on by the coronavirus’ Omicron variant. At the height of this wave of infections, the city saw over 2,000 confirmed locally transmitted cases every day.

    To contain the spread, residential communities in

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