Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have launched mandatory mass testing in nine districts and extended a lockdown one of them until the weekend amid fear of a worsening in a Covid-19 outbreak in the city.
The city reached a new height in infection numbers on Tuesday, reporting 114 confirmed local cases and 2,263 asymptomatic cases. It was the third day in a row for Guangzhou to have more than 1,000 daily cases and more than two weeks since the start of this outbreak, which is being driven by the Omicron BA.5.2 strain.
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