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Highly concentrated efforts will be made to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak in Haizhu of Guangzhou, Guangdong province, as infections continue to rise in the district, according to a local health official.
“We will allocate resources at all levels to tackle the epidemic in Haizhu, which is hardest hit by the city’s latest outbreak,” said Zhang Yi, deputy director and spokeswoman of the Guangzhou Health Commission, at a news conference on Wednesday.
On Tuesday alone, Haizhu reported 6,060 of the city’s 6,296 new infections, of which 17 were found at the community level, according to the health authority.
New infections were still mostly found in the district’s high-risk Kanglu area, an urban village with cramped buildings and poor ventilation, according to Zhang.
“Sporadic cases were also reported in several subdistricts, indicating the epidemic situation in Haizhu is still complex and severe,” she said.
Some 176,900 nucleic acid samples were collected in high-risk areas in the district on Tuesday, carried out by 4,600 medical workers and volunteers door-to-door, according to Fu Xiaochu, deputy district head of Haizhu.
“Screening in a classified way in high-risk areas will help us detect infections more quickly and accurately,” he said.
Guangzhou is the hardest-hit city on the Chinese mainland, accounting for around a third of all new infections.
