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Shanghai — New mass COVID-19 testing in parts of eastern China as China faces a new wave of infection while recovering from the effects of the spring outbreak that hit Beijing and Shanghai. Is being carried out.
China is struggling to revive its economy and has warned against unnecessarily expanding strict regulations, but in a "zero dynamic COVID" strategy, local governments We continue to demand that new infections be detected and contained as soon as possible.
The daily number of local infections in mainland China has increased to more than 300 over the weekend, compared to dozens in late June. Local authorities are still closing some businesses and blocking more than a million people, albeit very little by global standards.
In eastern Anhui, which reported most of China's local incidents in a recent relapse, state Hefei is conducting city-wide tests every three days late Sunday. Stated. Since last month, we have easily abolished the weekly testing requirements.
In Si Town, Anhui Province, 760,000 residents were told to stay at home except for going out for COVID inspections, and on Monday the seventh mass inspection, the city-wide inspection, was carried out. Mandatory.
Lingbi Town, also in Anhui Province, said it had blocked nearly a million residents and canceled an event where local businesses met with government officials.
In the southeastern part of Fujian Province, Jiaocheng District and Xiapu Town in Ningde City conducted a group test on Sunday.
Ningde, headquartered in CATL, the world's largest battery maker, reported 10 COVID infections in the country on Sunday, data from Fujian health officials. Showed on Monday.
Mainland China reported a total of 380 new local infections on July 3, 41 of which were symptomatic and 339 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Monday. ..
Infection was detected in Anhui, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Fujian, Shandong, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Shanghai.
There were no new deaths, with 5,226 reported deaths nationwide. (Report by Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, Shanghai Newsroom, additional writing by Liz Lee, edited by Kim Coghill and Lincoln Feast)
