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Coronavirus: Shenzhen controls outbreak while Wuhan district imposes lockdown

  • Risk of large-scale spread is low in China’s southern tech hub, according to health official, but city has yet to relax Covid-19 prevention measures
  • Wuhan’s Jiangxia district, home to more than 1 million people, enters three-day lockdown

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Medical workers collect swabs from residents at a Covid-19 testing site in Shenzhen on July 23. Photo: Reuters
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Shenzhen, China’s southern tech hub, said it has controlled the city’s latest Covid-19 outbreak but has not relaxed prevention measures, while a district in Wuhan has imposed a temporary lockdown.
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China reported 79 locally transmitted infections and 41 imported cases on Wednesday. Only one of the local cases was in Shenzhen, down from 19 a day earlier.

Shenzhen also recorded three asymptomatic infections, which are not counted in the country’s official tally, while China’s central metropolis of Wuhan recorded four asymptomatic infections.

On Wednesday, Shenzhen suspended the operation of two more subway stations, bringing the total number of closed stations to six.

The city downgraded three high-risk areas to medium-risk, and five medium-risk areas to low-risk, but it designated one more building as high-risk. Under the classification system, people in high-risk areas cannot leave their homes while those in medium-risk areas cannot leave their residential communities.

Health authorities told reporters on Tuesday that the number of new locally transmitted cases had decreased recently, but the possibility of sporadic transmission could not be ruled out.

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“All cases were detected at an early stage. The epidemic situation in the city is generally under control and the risk of large-scale spread is low,” said Lin Hancheng, a Shenzhen health official.

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