China’s Shenzhen widens COVID restrictions as cases rise

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – The southern Chinese language tech hub Shenzhen tightened COVID curbs as circumstances continued to mount on Thursday, with giant occasions and indoor leisure suspended for 3 days within the metropolis’s most populous district, Baoan.

A minimum of half of the Shenzhen’s ten districts, dwelling to over 13 million of the town’s residents, have now ordered blanket closures of leisure venues and halted or diminished restaurant eating.

Schooling authorities have postponed the beginning of the brand new faculty semester, which was largely deliberate to start on Thursday.

Officers urged residents to not depart the town except on pressing issues in an announcement issued late on Wednesday.

It didn’t specify how officers would police the brand new requirement, however demanded authorities, Communist get together authorities and state-owned corporations ensure that their staff don’t make pointless journeys exterior the town.

Residents who should depart have to indicate proof of two damaging checks inside 48 hours, in response to the assertion.

Authorities have traced a cluster of circumstances to a dance corridor within the metropolis’s central enterprise district of Futian, and had been urging latest guests there to report themselves to native well being authorities.

The world’s largest electronics market at Huaqiangbei stays closed after authorities shut it on Monday.

Shenzhen reported 62 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections for Aug 31, up from 37 a day earlier.

(Reporting by Roxanne Liu, Liz Lee and David Kirton; Modifying by Raju Gopalakrishnan)