The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has shut down a neighbourhood and ordered its residents to stay at home for door-to-door coronavirus testing following a surge in infections. Guangzhou, a business and industrial centre north of Hong Hong, has reported 20 new infections over the past week. The number is small compared with India’s thousands of daily cases but has alarmed Chinese authorities who believed they had Covid-19 under control. Saturday’s order to stay home applied to residents of five streets in Liwan District in the city centre. The government city of the city, which has a population of 15 million, earlier ordered testing of hundreds of thousands of residents following the initial infections.

Source: Irish Independent May 29, 2021 06:56 UTC