Beijing records first local case of Omicron ahead of Winter Olympics and Lunar New Year

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Beijing has recorded its first case involving the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The Chinese capital’s first locally transmitted case of the new strain of the virus that causes Covid-19 was reported on January 15, 2022, as a throng of local transmission chains was being found throughout the country with only weeks to go before the Lunar New Year holiday and the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics.