Schools in Beijing have opted for online classes as Covid 19 cases surge in China.
Health officials on Monday asked residents of the most hit areas to stay at home and observe the restrictions put in place.
Guangzhou, a southern city of 19 million people that is battling the largest of China’s recent outbreaks, ordered a five-day lockdown for its Baiyun district, its most populous.
China has had cases from Zhengzhou in central Henan province to Chongqing in the southwest and for Sunday reported 26,824 new local cases.
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In this case, officials suspended dine-in services and shut night clubs and theatres in Tianhe, home to the city’s main business district.
Several Chinese cities began cutting routine community COVID-19 testing last week, including the northern city of Shijiazhuang, which became the subject of fervent speculation that it could be a test bed for policy relaxation.
The current Covid wave in China has cost the giant state a lot economically.
Asian share markets and oil prices slipped on Monday as investors fretted about the economic fallout, with the risk aversion benefiting bonds and the dollar.
Shijiazhuang announced it would conduct mass testing in six of its eight districts over the next five days after new daily local cases hit 641.