The Chinese megacity of Guangzhou on Thursday canceled hundreds of flights and began testing 5.6 million people over one suspected COVID-19 case, part of an escalating battle across the country to extinguish the virus.
China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first wave in early 2020, with eastern Shanghai recording dozens of daily deaths and the capital Beijing sealing off whole neighborhoods where handfuls of cases have been detected.
Rolling virus restrictions—including a weeks-long lockdown of virtually all of Shanghai's 25 million residents—have damaged the economy, causing backlogs at the world's busiest container port, a key node in the global supply chain. The aim is "that the virus has nowhere to hide or settle," the city government said in a statement, raising fears of further restrictions across a city home to some of China's biggest companies.
Wang Yang, a 34-year-old Beijing resident, told AFP he had canceled his vacation plans because of the Omicron surge. In recent days, more housing compounds have lifted movement restrictions and authorities on Thursday said 90 percent of new infections were found in quarantined areas.
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