Beijing extends work-from-home order as Covid-19 cases rise

Residents pass by a quiet shopping centre area in Beijing (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Beijing has extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing as cases of Covid-19 again rose in the Chinese capital.

Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of citizens have been under varying degrees of lockdown for two months.