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China shuts down city after failed bid to contain second coronavirus outbreak

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A bustling city in China with a population of 4.4 million people has announced a new Wuhan-style lockdown after a second wave of coronavirus infections.

Officials in Jilin, the former capital and second-largest city in Jilin Province, put Fengman District on "high alert" yesterday.

The district recorded three new locally transmitted cases and one further death. It comes one week after Shulan, which is administered by Jilin, went on lockdown and quarantined 8,000 people in a failed bid to contain the second outbreak.

On Saturday, the local government sacked six officials, including Shulan Communist Party Chief Li Pengfei, over their handling of the second wave, which has so far resulted in 18 confirmed cases since May 7.

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