Most residents of the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as mass COVID\u002D19 testing kicked off.
Residents in six districts that account for the majority of the city’s population will be tested twice over the weekend, helping to “minimize the impact on people’s working life,” the city government said in a statement published on Saturday on its official WeChat account.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
One person from each household will be allowed out from their compound once over the two days to buy food, medicines and necessities, the six districts said. “The fear of going places, the constant disruption to work, has to be worse than the virus itself,” she said, declining to give her full name. A Foxconn plant in the city that makes Apple iPads was operating normally as of Friday evening, according to a statement sent to Reuters on Saturday.Article content
Chengdu city authorities on Saturday announced a slight easing of the city’s current lockdown regime, which involves working from home and daily mass testing until Sunday.
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