Ryan Woo and Roxanne Liu;

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• October 28, 2021

  By Ryan Woo and Roxanne Liu;

  Rare plea for help as China's zero tolerance for COVID hits border town

  -A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a "strong" helping hand from Beijing.

  

  -A former vice mayor of a Chinese town on the border with Myanmar lamented local lockdowns and disruptions caused by repeated COVID-19 outbreaks and wrote a rare plea for a "strong" helping hand from Beijing.