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A | Beginning next week, people wanting to enter certain public facilities in China will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or of having a medical reason for not getting the shot, Li Ang, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Health Commission, told reporters on Wednesday.,The list includes museums, theaters, stadiums, gyms, and other entertainment venues; in addition, elderly people will also have to show proof of vaccination to enter community facilities such as game rooms. Restaurants and public transportation are exempt from the new requirement.,The new mandate is in addition to a standing requirement for residents of the Chinese capital city to get tested every three days and to need a negative test to enter public venues.,A year ago, when the Delta variant of COVID-19 caused the worst outbreak in China since the one that started the pandemic, and Beijing responded by ushering in the “Zero Covid” policy, the National Health Commission urged provincial authorities to keep the vaccination program “informed, consented and voluntary” and not to introduce mandates for public access, as many Western states had done.,However, that was before China succeeded at vaccinating 87% of its 1.4 billion-strong population, including 97% of Chinese adults, and before the Omicron variant caused the worst and most persistent outbreaks for China until now in the pandemic.,The change also comes as the NHC relaxes travel quarantine requirements for the first time since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, but also as Beijing health authorities indicated they were planning for “Zero Covid” to last another five years.,The NHC reported 427 new cases on the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, most of them concentrated in the eastern provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu, and no new deaths. The news brings the total detected cases on the mainland since the start of the pandemic to 226,176, while total deaths remained at 5,226. The situation has been less rosy in Hong Kong, a special administrative region with greater autonomy, and in Taiwan, where an autonomous government with foreign backing rules in defiance of Chinese claims of sovereignty.,Paradoxically, Chinese elders have a lower vaccination rate than younger generations. Last month, the Financial Times reported that Chinese cities had begun offering “vaccine insurance” to people over the age of 60, pledging to cover their medical costs related to any potential complications caused by vaccination. Some two-thirds of Chinese citizens over 60 are under-vaccinated, with 95 million not having gotten their booster shot as of June 5.,Ma Chaofeng, a health official in Shaanxi’s capital of Xi'an, told reporters on Tuesday that more than two dozen cases had been detected in the city and were identified as the BA 5.2 subvariant of Omicron. The city introduced new mass nucleic testing on Wednesday in an attempt to stay ahead of a larger outbreak, with most commercial and medical institutions remaining open as normal. Nonetheless, in the West, where essentially all pandemic mitigation measures have been discarded, the move was described as “Xi’an shuts back down.”,“The transmission chain is clear, the source is clear,” Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of the Beijing Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, told reporters on Wednesday about the imported cluster in Xi’an. “The outbreak is considered to be controllable overall, based on the existing epidemic development trend.”。被告将糯米发酵一个月至一个半月，确认颜色和味道都符合条件后，就开始酿酒。（新加坡讯）男子觉得买酒很贵，从中国购买仪器，自己在家酿米酒，结果赔了夫人又折兵，被判坐牢一周，罚款2万新元。《新明日报》报导，47岁的被告杨瑞辉来自中国，目前已是新加坡永久居民，他面对3项抵触关税法令（Customs Act）的控状。案情显示，去年5月，被告觉得新加坡的酒太贵，于是开始在家酿酒。他先从中国购买蒸馏容器和冷却环（cooling coil）等酿酒工具，再购买好几公斤的糯米。被告将糯米发酵一个月至一个半月，确认颜色和味道都符合条件后，就开始酿酒。

B | 每一批发酵的糯米可酿制17瓶至18瓶1.5升的米酒。

C | 被告不仅把这些米酒拿来自用，也卖给朋友，每瓶售价10新元，以抵消制作成本。另外，被告女友也会将米酒卖给朋友。关税局人员接获情报后，于今年1月8日突击被告住家，并在单位内找到酿酒工具。在没有执照的情况下，被告酿制了32瓶一共46.695升的酒，漏缴2185新元的关税和国产税（customs and excise duty）以及264新元的消费税。（人名译音）。