Coronavirus: Guangzhou residents queue for jabs after four cases reported

Between May 21 and May 27 ‘there were four confirmed cases and five asymptomatic cases’, Guangzhou Health Commission official says

Systems ‘must be put in place in cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen to make sure that all necessary measures are implemented well and effectively’

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Guangzhou’s Liwan and Haizhu districts are classified as “medium risk” areas under China’s three-tier system. Photo: Xinhua

Published: 8:00pm, 27 May 2021Updated: 9:18pm, 27 May 2021

Tens of thousands of residents of the south China city of Guangzhou flocked to get their Covid-19 jabs on Thursday, while authorities reported four new infections over the past week.

Chen Bin, deputy director of Guangzhou Health Commission told a press conference that between May 21 and May 27 “there were four confirmed cases and five asymptomatic cases” in the city.

“All of them are related to the [first] confirmed case, surnamed Guo, and all of them were infected in relatively confined environments such as shared residences and restaurants, and are believed to have been caused by the same chain of infections,” she said.

Guangzhou has reported four coronavirus cases in the past week. Photo: Xinhua

Zhang Zhoubin, deputy head of the Guangzhou Centre of Disease Control, said the difference between this outbreak and earlier ones was the speed of transmission.

“Transmission can happen when people share meals and that shows the virus is highly contagious,” he said.

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