Beijing shuts train stations amid fears of Shanghai-style lockdown

shut dozens of train stations and bus routes today and reopened a mass isolation centre in its campaign to stop the spread of Covid-19 amid fears the Chinese capital will follow Shanghai and impose a strict on its 22 million residents.

The capital shut more than 60 subway stations - about 15 per cent of the network - and 158 bus routes, service providers said. Most of the suspended stations and routes are in the Chaoyang district, the epicentre of Beijing's outbreak.

With dozens of new cases a day, Beijing is trying to avoid the same fate as Shanghai, where millions of residents have been under strict lockdown for more than a month. Instead, officials are hoping that mass testing will find and isolate the virus before it spreads.

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