China Covid-19 cases rise, Beijing tightens entry rules

severe test of the Covid-19 pandemic, shutting businesses and schools in hard-hit districts and tightening rules for entering the city as infections ticked higher in Beijing and nationally. China is fighting numerous

Covid flare-ups, from Zhengzhou in Henan province to Chongqing in the southwest. It reported 26,824 new local cases on Sunday, nearing the country’s daily infection peak in April. It also recorded two deaths in Beijing, up from one on Saturday — China’s first since late May.