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President Joe Biden said he had issued an order on Wednesday to take down the balloon, but the Pentagon had recommended waiting until it could be done over open water to safeguard civilians.
The Chinese balloon, of the size of three buses, laced with a significant number of payloads will probably be over the United States for a few days, the Pentagon said.
The incident recalls the lengths to which Beijing and Washington have been willing to go to spy on each other amid rising tensions between the superpowers.
General view of the grid before a race at Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China. File photo: Reuters/ Aly Song
The last time China is believed to have recorded a population decline was during the Great Leap Forward at the end of the 1950s.
A health official said on Saturday that COVID fever and emergency hospitalisations had peaked and the number of hospitalised patients was continuing to decline.
Infections are expected to surge in rural areas as hundreds of millions travel to their home towns for the Lunar New Year holidays, which officially start from Jan. 21, known before the pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people.
Health experts and countries such as the United States and Japan have expressed concern over how the virus is largely unchecked across the world's most populous country.
The complete scrapping of the travel rules comes at a time China is grappling with a sudden spurt in coronavirus infections.
Garcia, who also reached the US Open semifinals last year, said sharing her struggles helped.