China Beach Resort City Locked Down as Covid-19 Cases Jump

An empty beach in Sanya on Aug. 5.Photographer: Jason Rogers/Bloomberg
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China has locked down the beach resort city of Sanya after the number of Covid-19 cases there spiked to more than 200 on Friday from just 11 two days earlier.