The Chinese city of Shijiazhuang imposed a partial lockdown as COVID\u002D19 infections climbed.
Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of China’s Hebei province that borders Beijing, said mass testing will be done on residents in in four major downtown districts and they are required to stay at home for three days from 2 p.m. Sunday. It reported 25 local COVID cases for Saturday.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
China’s economic slowdown deepened in July, with retail sales, industrial output and investment all missing economist estimates. Policy makers have moved to bolster growth after the weak data. Profits at industrial firms in China fell in the first seven months of the year as the economy continued to grapple with COVID disruptions and an ongoing slump in the property sector, data on Saturday showed.
State media last week again defended the country’s increasingly costly zero tolerance approach to COVID-19, saying inactivity from “lying flat” would be disastrous, as outbreaks in its tourism hotspots abate. Recent damage to growth stems from COVID itself, not the government’s measures to contain it, the State Council-affiliated newspaper Economic Daily said in a column on Thursday.
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