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Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is seeing an influx of Chinese tourists. A rise in COVID-19 cases in Chinese provinces has prompted a tourism ban in many areas, but Tibet is open and tourists are crowding in, to the concern of local residents, Radio Free Asia quotes a local source as describing the large crowds as “frightening” in the face of the pandemic.
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