A medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab from residents., as the country faces new waves of infections while recovering from impact of the spring outbreaks that hit Beijing and Shanghai.
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. Anhui’s Si town, where its 760 000 residents were told to stay home except for going out to do COVID tests, mandated citywide testing on Monday, its seventh round of mass testing.
In the southeastern province of Fujian, the Jiaocheng district and the town of Xiapu in the city of Ningde ran mass testing on Sunday.
They're not recovering from outbreaks. They're recovering from lockdowns