The southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou locked down its largest district Monday as it tries to tamp down a major COVID\u002D19 outbreak.
The outbreak is testing China’s attempt to bring a more targeted approach to its zero-COVID policies while facing multiple outbreaks driven by fast-spreading omicron variants. China is the only major country in the world still trying to curb virus transmissions through strict lockdown measures and mass testing.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
While critics have questioned China’s COVID-19 numbers, and specifically its death toll, its intensive approach to trying to contain infections has prevented massive outbreaks and kept new daily cases lower than in many other countries.Article contenttap here to see other videos from our teamEarlier this month, China announced that it was relaxing some of its ‘”zero-COVID” policies, such as suspending flights from airlines that had brought a certain number of passengers who tested positive.
Larger cities are still holding on to some of the tested measures, though in a more fragmented manner than shutting down an entire city, which they had previously done.
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