SHANGHAI: Parts of eastern China are running fresh rounds of mass Covid-19 testing, as the country faces new waves of infections while recovering from the impact of spring outbreaks in Beijing and Shanghai.
China continues to demand authorities to detect and contain new infections as soon as possible in its “dynamic Covid-zero” strategy, although it has warned against expanding strict curbs unnecessarily.
Daily numbers of locally transmitted infections in mainland China increased to more than 300 over the weekend compared with a few dozens in late June.
While tiny by global standards, local officials have still closed some businesses and locked down more than a million people.
In Anhui, which reported most of China’s local cases in the latest flare-up, its capital Hefei said late on Sunday it is doing citywide testing every three days.
Anhui’s Si town, where its 760,000 residents were told to stay home, mandated citywide testing on Monday.
Lingbi town, also in Anhui, locked down its nearly one million residents and said it had cancelled an event for local businesses to meet government officials. — Reuters
