Chinese city locks down neighbourhood amid virus surge

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>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 coronavirus infections&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guangzhou&comma; a business and industrial centre north of Hong Hong&comma; has reported 20 new infections over the past week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The spread of infections has been &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fast and strong”&comma; the official Global Times newspaper cited health authorities as saying&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saturday’s order to stay home applied to residents of five streets in Liwan District in the city centre&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Outdoor markets&comma; childcare centres and entertainment venues were closed&comma; and indoor restaurant dining was prohibited&period; Schools were told to stop face-to-face teaching&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People in parts of four nearby districts were ordered to limit outdoor activity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The government city of the city&comma; which has a population of 15 million&comma; earlier ordered testing of hundreds of thousands of residents following the initial infections&period; Officials said some 700&comma;000 people had been tested by Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China reports a handful of new cases every day but says almost all are believed to be people who were infected abroad&period; The mainland’s official death toll stands at 4&comma;636 out of 91&comma;061 confirmed cases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Saturday&comma; the National Health Commission reported two new locally transmitted cases in Guangzhou and 14 in other parts of the country that it said came from abroad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Most of the latest infections in Guangzhou are believed to be linked to a 75-year-old woman who was found on May 21 to have the variant first identified in India&comma; state media said&period; Most of the others attended a dinner with her or live together&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That infection spread to the nearby city of Nanshan&comma; where one new confirmed case and two asymptomatic cases were reported on Saturday after people from Guangzhou were tested&comma; according to the Global Times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed33fadb09a">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed33fadb09a'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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