The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou shut down a neighborhood and ordered its residents to stay home for door-to-door coronavirus testing following an upsurge in infections.
President Joe Biden said that he is asking the intelligence community to submit another report to him within 90 days on the origins of COVID-19.BEIJING -- The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou shut down a neighborhood and ordered its residents to stay home Saturday for door-to-doorGuangzhou, a business and industrial center of 15 million people north of Hong Kong, has reported 20 new infections over the past week.
Outdoor markets, child care centers and entertainment venues were closed. Indoor restaurant dining was prohibited. Grade schools were told to stop in-person classes.The city government earlier ordered testing of hundreds of thousands of residents following the initial infections. The government said some 700,000 people had been tested by Wednesday.
On Saturday, the National Health Commission reported two new locally transmitted cases in Guangzhou and 14 in other parts of the country that it said came from abroad.