Tourists in Chinese Border Town Trapped by COVID-19 Outbreak

A health workers look at people queueing for swab tests for COVID-19 at a nucleic acid collection station in Beijing on Oct. 26, 2021. Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images

Nearly 10,000 tourists are trapped in a tourist town on China’s northern border after strict government lockdowns were implemented in response to recent COVID-19 outbreaks.

Around 9,700 tourists are locked down in Dalaihob town of Inner Mongolia, according to a report from Chinese online news outlet The Paper on Oct. 26.