A woman receives a nucleic acid test for COVID in Guangzhou, a port city in China's southern Guangdong province.
The Chinese government is scrambling to suppress a new emergence of COVID cases in the country's south.The new cases were attributed to a contagious strain of the virus first found in India.China put in place a slate of strict measures to fight COVID in the southern port city of Guangzhou on Monday night in an attempt to suppress a potential fresh wave of cases and avoid the fate of other Asian countries struggling to curb the virus.came into effect at 10 p.m.
Guangzhou is a sprawling Chinese city located around 80 miles northwest of Hong Kong. It boasts a population of 15.3 million residents - nearly twice the size of New York City - and is situated within Guangdong, home to around 115 million people. The new restrictions resulted in some 500 flights being canceled at Guangzhou and Shenzhen's airports, per the
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