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Authorities in China's capital warned that a COVID-19 surge in cases linked to a 24-hour bar was critical and the city of 22 million was in a "race against time" to get to grips with its most serious outbreak since the pandemic began as Shanghai orders mass testing.

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Beijing and Shanghai race to contain COVID

A medical worker takes a swab sample from a person at a mobile nucleic acid testing booth, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China.

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Workers in protective suits direct residents lining up for nucleic acid testing at a residential area, amid new lockdown measures in parts of the city to curb the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China.

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Residents line up at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site, during a mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Chaoyang district of Beijing, China.

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A woman wearing a face mask walks past a barricade sealing off a commercial area following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Chaoyang district of Beijing, China.

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Workers in protective suits walk inside a residential area under lockdown, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China.

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People line up for nucleic acid test at a mobile testing booth, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beijing, China.

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Workers install barricades to seal off a residential building under lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China.

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A resident talks to a worker wearing a protective suit at a residential building under lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, Chin.

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Workers put on protective suits and disinfecting equipment outside a shopping complex, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China.

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