Authorities in China’s southern city of Guangzhou announced over 2,000 new COVID-19 infections on Nov. 8. Strict COVID measures have been implemented in the city of 19 million, a major manufacturing center. As the city tries to avoid a blanket lockdown like the one in Shanghai earlier this year, over 30,000 Guangzhou residents have been transferred to isolation facilities outside the city.
Guangzhou, the “factory floor of the world,” is at the center of China’s most recent COVID-19 outbreak. On Nov. 8, Chinese health authorities reported 8,335 new infections in the country of 1.4 billion. That number includes 6,989 asymptomatic cases and 1,346 confirmed cases, according to a daily briefing from China’s National Health Commission. Guangzhou was responsible for nearly a third of the new infections at 2,637 new cases.
