Lockdown Fears Loom as Beijing Starts Testing Nearly All of Its 21 Million Residents

Lockdown Fears Loom as Beijing Starts Testing Nearly All of Its 21 Million Residents
People stand in line for coronavirus tests in a neighborhood in the Dongcheng district of Beijing on April 26, 2022. Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo
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China’s capital city, Beijing, on April 26 started testing most of its 21 million residents, stoking fears that a citywide lockdown was imminent.

Lines formed from the city’s university district of Haidian to Dongcheng, which houses the country’s top officials, with residents waiting for throat swabs.