China’s Shenzhen to adopt tiered COVID measures on Monday

BEIJING/SHANGHAI --- China's southern tech hub of Shenzhen, which went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday for mass COVID-19 testing, said it will adopt tiered anti-virus restriction measures starting on Monday. The city also announced a new round of COVID-19 testing, vowing to "marshal all available resources, mobilize all forces, and take all possible measures" to stamp out the pandemic, after Shenzhen reported 89 new locally transmitted COVID infections on Sept 3, compared with 87 a day earlier. "Currently, the city's COVID situation is severe and complex. The number of new infections remains relatively high and community transmission risk still exists," Lin Hancheng, a Shen...

Keep on reading: China’s Shenzhen to adopt tiered COVID measures on Monday

from INQUIRER.net https://ift.tt/BeyfptC