Covid-19 in China: parts of Guangzhou shut down as province battles latest outbreak

Residents in the city’s Liwen district issued stay-at-home orders, while businesses are shut and public transport services restricted

Health officials say greater urgency must be given to efforts to stop the disease spreading across Guangdong province

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A resident gets tested for coronavirus in Liwan district in Guangzhou. Photo: AP

Published: 7:50pm, 29 May 2021Updated: 4:38pm, 30 May 2021

Corrected [4:36pm, 30 May, 2021]

[4:36pm, 30 May, 2021]
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that a 75-year-old Guangzhou patient infected with the coronavirus variant first seen in India was a man.

The authorities have shut down parts of a district in the capital of Guangdong as the southern Chinese province remains on high alert over the latest Covid-19 outbreak.

Several streets in Guangzhou city’s Liwan district and some businesses were shut, while public transport links were suspended.

Guangdong’s provincial health commission said on Saturday that the province registered two new locally transmitted, confirmed coronavirus cases, along with eight new asymptomatic cases, on Friday.

Among the confirmed cases, one was an asymptomatic-turned-confirmed case from Guangzhou, another one was from Foshan. Five of the new asymptomatic cases were reported in Guangzhou, two in Foshan and one in Shenzhen.

The province also reported three new imported asymptomatic cases on Friday from people who had travelled to Guangzhou from Cambodia, Turkey and Zambia.

Guangzhou has reported five confirmed coronavirus cases and 15 silent infections since May 21, when a 75-year-old woman was infected with the variant first seen in India. The cases in Foshan have been linked with the Guangzhou cluster.

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