Government
January 18, 2022
WF Central, a luxury shopping center in Beijing. Image credit: WF Central
By Sarah Ramirez
Less than three weeks before the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Omicron variant has arrived in the Chinese capital.
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