Beijing braces for lockdown as COVID cases rise

State of play: Beijing officials have started mass testing while residents have started stocking up on food and supplies.

• The efforts come as Shanghai, the country’s most populous city, remains in a state of lockdown, with new measures like fencing around “sealed areas” popping up.

The big picture: Any new lockdowns will add to supply chain issues and limit the country’s potential growth this year.

• China is the largest single driver of global economic growth, so the country's woes will quickly become the world's problem, Axios’ Matt Phillips and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian have written previously.

Go deeper: China is in the middle of its worst known COVID outbreak