Beijing authorities have sealed off a mall and locked down several residential compounds over a Covid flare-up, as the latest outbreak spread to the Chinese capital’s central districts.

A woman was killed and 12 other people injured after a man carried out a knife attack in a mall in a busy shopping district in the Chinese capital, Beijing, police said on Sunday.

Beijing's shopping mall industry has experienced high-speed development in recent years. According to statistics from CB Richard Ellis, the world's largest commercial real estate services firm ...