Chinese truck drivers have been using separate cell phones to record different legs of their travel histories, allowing them to get through checkpoints and avoid possible quarantine, state-run media reported on March 30. Many have now been fined or detained for doing so. According to China’s COVID-19 rules, a person who has visited a city with a COVID-19 outbreak can’t visit other cities, even if returning home. People have to present their cell phones, which automatically record their travel histories, in order to travel past checkpoints. Desperate travelers have also been using the sleight of hand to get through checkpoints when they want to enter or leave a city. The Chinese regime announced COVID-19 outbreaks all around the country in March, and tightened controls on free movement in an attempt to curb further spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant. On March 30, the nation’s economic center Shanghai and northeastern China’s Jilin …