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A COVID-19 cluster at a Beijing nightclub sets off a new clampdown

Dozens of cases linked to a nightclub spurs officials to return to online schooling and indefinitely delay sports gatherings.

BEIJING — China's capital has put school online in one of its major districts amid a new COVID-19 outbreak linked to a nightclub, while life has yet to return to normal in Shanghai despite the lifting of a more than two-month-long lockdown.

China has stuck to its "zero-COVID" policy requiring mass testing, quarantines and the sequestering of anyone

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