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An all-in battle against Covid-19 in Beijing

Hu Baogang checks a resident's body temperature at the entrance of a community in Xicheng District of Beijing, capital of China, June 24, 2020. [Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin]

  As a rainstorm cooled down the sun-scorched road on an early summer's day in Beijing, Hu Baogang greeted every visitor to a hutong, one of the city's traditional alleys, with an electronic thermometer.

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