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COVID lockdown looms over Beijing

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China's capital city has a slowly bubbling COVID situation that looks set to boil over soon.

The latest: On Sunday, Beijing reported 96 new infections, 17 of which were found outside of the quarantined population.

What that means: Those 17 new cases are separate from known transmission chains...