China’s Covid Curbs Intensify As Cases Surge

Beijing: Chinese authorities stepped up COVID-19 lockdowns and other curbs to halt clusters from spreading as China’s caseload soared china to its highest since this year’s Shanghai lockdown, with Beijing and Zhengzhou seeing record daily cases.

China reported on Friday 10,535 new locally transmitted cases for Nov. 10, the highest since April 29, when the country’s commercial hub, Shanghai, was battling its most serious outbreak.

With the latest outbreak, China is very cautious in every adjustment it makes in its Covid policies. Though questions are being raised on its zero-Covid policy – that has frustrated the public and inflicted damage on the world’s second-largest economy, China may not relax its Covid curbs in the near future. It will however keep improving them according to the changing epidemic situation and mutation of the virus and will be more scientifically accurate in their implementation, disease experts told news agencies.

Driving the infections were cases in the populous district of Haizhu, which on Friday declared a hard lockdown until Sunday after days of widening restrictions and curbs.

“All residents are required to stay at home,” the district government said in a statement. “Only one person in each household is allowed to buy daily necessities on a staggered schedule.”