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D. The 2022 Winter Olympics opens in Beijing a week from Friday. China has canceled all ticket sales for the games because of the coronavirus.
C. The U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada are protesting the mass detentions, forced labor and forced sterilizations of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, a northwestern region of China. But, Chinese leaders have drawn criticism in the past for treatment of people in Tibet and the former British colony of Hong Kong.
B. Denmark killed all of its mink – as many as 17 million animals – in fall of 2020 after a mutated form of coronavirus was found on its mink farms. The coronavirus can be caught by animals including dogs, cats, ferrets and rodents, all commonly kept as pets. But there is no clear evidence that pets can easily pass the infection to humans.
D. China has succeeded in vaccinating 80% of its people, but its vaccines aren’t as effective against the Omicron variant as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines widely used in the West. Repeated lockdowns of millions of people have curbed the spread of the virus, but business has been hit hard and there is some grumbling about the hardships people have suffered.