beijing china rushed tuesday to test an entire city of nine million people within days after a minor coronavirus outbreak in the sprawling country a far cry from the struggle in europe to tackle surging infections with tough new steps including partial lockdownsthe virus is still spreading rapidly worldwide with over one million deaths and 37 million infections and many nations that suppressed their first outbreaks now face a second wavewithout a vaccine governments are wary of allowing the virus to spread uncheckedchina where covid19 first emerged late last year launched a drive to test all residents of qingdao after a handful of cases were detected on sundaymore than four million samples had been collected and 19 million results returned as of tuesday afternoon qingdao authorities said adding that no new cases had been found beyond already confirmed infectionschinese officials intend to test the entire city around 94 million people by thursdayin scenes contrasting with the fumbled testing efforts elsewhere health workers in protective clothing swiftly set up tents and residents queued deep into monday night to provide samplesin europe governments are battling to curb surges with new controls and increased testing while trying to avoid the devastating nationwide lockdowns of march and aprildutch prime minister mark rutte announced the netherlands will go into partial lockdown from 2000 gmt on wednesday with all bars cafs and restaurants to close for two weeks at leastfrench president emmanuel macron is expected to announce tighter restrictions and faster testing in a primetime tv interview wednesday night with some media speculating paris and other cities could face evening curfewshospitals in paris will have most of their intensive care beds packed with covid19 patients as soon as next week the systems chief warned tuesdayits inevitable martin hirsch the head of the 39 hospitals in paris and its suburbs told the parisien newspaper estimating beds would reach 7090 capacity by october 24russia on tuesday reported its highestever number of daily virus deaths at 244 and a record number of new cases at almost 14000italy imposed new tougher rules to control a resurgence including an end to parties amateur football matches and snacking at bars at nightpolish prime minister mateusz morawiecki on tuesday became the latest highprofile figure to go into quarantine after coming into contact with a person with covid19and portugals football federation said star striker cristiano ronaldo had tested positive for the virusbritains prime minister boris johnson whose country has the highest death toll in europe on monday had already ordered pubs in liverpool to shut as part of a new strategyhe said businesses forced to close would get support from the government but his focus on shutting hospitality venues sparked anger as have similar measures elsewhereopposition labour leader keir starmer called tuesday for a 23 week circuit break lockdown to slow infection rates saying the government had lost control of the outbreak having ignored stringent measures suggested by scientific experts on september 21in opposition to lockdowns and social distancing some