Guangzhou reports 16 new Covid-19 cases and 53 asymptomatic cases; Partial shut-down in Zhongshan halts almost all social and commercial activity.
Zhongshan
City requires seven days’ home quarantine followed by week’s health monitoring; failure to comply with all regulations will lead to quarantine at traveller’s own expense.
Face-to-face classes suspended for cross-border teachers and students from designated areas of Zhuhai and Zhongshan.
Authorities stress potential risk of items delivered from mainland which may be contaminated with novel coronavirus.
After female parallel trader sparked Barrier Gate mass testing, and more than 35,000 negative results, teaching gets back to normal.
No positive results reported so far. Cross-border travellers and anyone who may have crossed paths with infected Tanzhou parallel trader under orders to get tested.
Frequent border crossers last weekend and shoppers who may have crossed paths with positive case from Tanzhou must test three times before Friday evening.
Frequent shopper from Zhongshan sparks emergency round of NATs; classes switch to online for 300 students and staff living in Tanzhou.
While Hong Kong is cutting time to 14 days and a week’s self-health management, city health chief says Omicron and Delta still present significant threat.
