COVID-19 fight continues as cases rise in China’s Guangzhou

BEIJING — Highly concentrated efforts will be made to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak in Haizhu of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, as infections continue to rise in the district, according to a local health official.

“We will allocate resources at all levels to tackle the epidemic in Haizhu, which is hardest hit by the city’s latest outbreak,” said Zhang Yi, deputy director and spokeswoman of the Guangzhou Health Commission, at a news conference on Wednesday.

On Tuesday alone, Haizhu reported 6,060 of the city’s 6,296 new infections, of which 17 were found at the community level, according to the health authority.

New infections were still mostly found in the district’s high-ri…

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