Guangzhou city steps up measures to fight Covid-19 as cases rise


Residents wait in line for nucleic acid testing in Panyu district, Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, on Friday, June 4,2021. - China Daily/ANN

GUANGZHOU, June 4 (China Dailly/ANN): City government departments in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, stepped up measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases and asymptomatic carriers detected in the city continued to rise.

Chen Bin, deputy director of the Guangzhou health commission, said South China's Guangdong Province registered nine new locally transmitted confirmed Covid-19 cases on Thursday night, two of which were previously asymptomatic cases, the provincial health commission said Friday.

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