New COVID variant lands in China
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China's whack-a-mole zero-COVID strategy will force officials to whack faster and faster.
Because the target's speeding up.
On Tuesday, Xi'an's center for disease control reported the latest COVID-19 cases discovered in the city belong to the BA.5.2 Omicron subvariant (Yicai).
It's a big d...