AMONG the headlines for Wednesday, December 29, 2021, Malaysia reports another 3,683 Covid-19 cases within the last 24 hours.

The country has so far hit more than 2.7million people since the pandemic started.

Also, China's Xi'an has further tightened lockdown restrictions as it enters the seventh day today.

Xian rolled out city-wide testing and placed its 13 million residents under a strict lockdown last week, causing many to be unable to leave their homes and virtually dependent on deliveries of necessities as new Covid-19 infections persisted.

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