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On Sunday, China reported over 3,400 daily Covid-19 cases, more than doubling the previous day's total, prompting lockdowns in viral hotspots as the country battles its worst outbreak in two years. As roughly 19 provinces combat clusters of the Omicron and Delta strains, officials in Shanghai have closed schools and shut down many cities in the north-eastern part of the country. According to an official, the city of Jilin has been largely shut down, with hundreds of neighborhoods walled off, while Yanji, a city of roughly 700,000 people on the border with North Korea, has been completely shut down. When clusters of the virus emerged in China in late 2019, the country implemented a strong zero-Covid policy that included quick lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mass testing. However, the most recent flare-up, which is being fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron form and an increase in asymptomatic cases, is putting that strategy to the test. On Sunday, Zhang Yan, a representati

Despite the crisis surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a majority of people still want Boris Johnson to quit, according to the latest Opinium survey for the Observer. The percentage of voters who want the prime minister to step down has dropped significantly. However, a new poll found that 53% of people still want him to leave, down ten points from January. A majority (52 percent) believe the government has not gone far enough in letting Ukrainian refugees into the UK as a result of the Ukraine situation. When asked if they would take in Ukrainian migrants themselves, 9% replied yes, while another 20% said they would consider it. Approximately 63 percent indicated they were unable to do so, whereas 8% stated they could but would not. Four-fifths of UK citizens (78%) favour supplying guns to Ukraine. Similarly, nearly seven out of ten people (68 percent) favor donating western fighter planes to the Ukrainian air force for use in defense. A proposed no-fly zone over Ukraine has