A woman wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 walks past a mural in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, December 23, 2021. China ordered the lockdown of as many as 13 million people in neighborhoods and workplaces in the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases, setting off panic buying just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympic Games. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
