DALIAN, China -- It was 3 a.m. on a freezing January night when Ms. Wu, along with the other residents of her apartment complex in China's northeastern city of Tianjin, was roused by local authorities for an immediate PCR test. Stumbling downstairs and out into the cold, they lined up in the street for about an hour to be swabbed.
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