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The northern Chinese port city of Tianjin has locked down 29 communities after detecting the country's first community spread of the Omicron variant over the weekend.

‘Zero-Covid’ China fights to contain Omicron as restrictions tighten in major city

By Nectar Gan, CNN China’s northern port city of Tianjin and central province of Henan have further tightened Covid restrictions as the highly contagious Omicron variant continues to spread, posing the gravest challenge yet to the country’s zero-Covid strategy. Tianjin, which detected China’s first community spread of Omicron on Saturday, is rolling out a second

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With more teachers sickened or sidelined by the highly contagious Omicron variant

Desperate to fill teacher shortages, school districts ask parents and various staff to become substitutes

By Paul P. Murphy and Holly Yan, CNN With more teachers sickened or sidelined by the highly contagious Omicron variant, school districts across the country have resorted to extraordinary measures to keep classrooms running. Cincinnati Public Schools averted the shutdown of 11 schools Monday by dispatching more than 60 staffers from the district’s central office

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