Multiple Chinese Government Agencies Close Down Temporarily Due to Surge in COVID Infections

Emergency health workers transport a patient to a fever clinic at a hospital amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing on Dec. 21, 2022. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty Images

Several Chinese government organizations, including police stations, pandemic control centers, and judicial offices, are closed down temporarily amid a COVID-19 outbreak sweeping across China.

Some claim that the majority of their staff have tested positive for COVID, according to the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times, which reached out to a few agencies on Dec. 23 and Dec. 24.

Shandong Police Station

The household registration section of Hongxing West Road Police Station in Jining City, in China’s northeastern Shandong Province, has been shut down, according to an officer at the station.