China reports 17,909 new COVID cases for Nov 14 vs 16,203 a day earlier
China is scrambling to limit the damage of its zero-COVID policy nearly three years into the pandemic, as the latest in a spate ofshowed retail sales fell in October and factory output grew more slowly than expected.
"The infection curve of Guangzhou is tracking the pace of Shanghai's March-April outbreak, raising the question of whether a city-wide lockdown will be triggered," JPMorgan analysts wrote, referring to Shanghai's two-month lockdown this year. JPMorgan estimates that cities with more than 10 new cumulative cases in the past week are home to 780 million people and account for 62.2% of GDP - roughly triple the levels seen at the end of September.
On the Twitter-like Weibo, a hashtag on testing booth closures was flooded with critical comments on Monday night before being censored: "What are working people supposed to do?" wrote one Weibo user. Another asked: "What kind of brain came up with this policy?" In Shanghai, which has been reporting relatively low infection numbers, including 16 for Monday, entire apartment blocks were still being sealed off and the Shanghai Disney Resort has been shut since Oct. 31 after a visitor tested positive for COVID.
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