Roughly half of China’s population is facing new restrictions on travel. Across China, officials have imposed controls of various kinds on people’s movements, hoping that minimizing contact will prevent the virus from circulating further. To gauge the scale and breadth of these policies, The New York Times examined dozens of local government announcements and reports from state-run news outlets. The Times’s analysis found that at least 150 million people in China — over 10 percent of the country’s population — are facing government restrictions about how often they can leave their homes. They represent a subset of the more than 760 million people in China whose neighborhoods and villages have imposed strictures of some sort on residents’ comings and goings, as The Times reported over the weekend . That larger figure represents more than half of the country’s population, and roughly one in 10 […]