Another Northern Chinese City Orders Mass COVID-19 Testing as Outbreak Intensifies

A medical worker shows a syringe with the Sinovac Biotech Vero Cell vaccine at a health care center in Yantai, Shandong Province, China, on Jan. 5, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

Another northern Chinese city has issued strict controls following a surge in COVID-19 cases.

On Jan. 6, the Shijiazhuang government ruled that all its 11 million residents must take COVID-19 nucleic acid tests within the following three to four days.