How we do sex in Changchun - China reports first coronavirus deaths in over a year amid omicron surge

The province has instituted a travel ban, with people needing permission from police to travel across borders.

A top Chinese medical expert Zhang Wenhong has raised the prospect of softening the "zero-Covid" strategy in the face of the Omicron variant.

But scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China in late 2019 but has eased in much of the rest of the world.

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