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China locks down ‘iPhone city’ as daily Covid cases reach all-time high
Covid cases are on the rise again in China and cities have enforced tough measures and curbs to control the outbreak. China reported 32,695 new local cases on Thursday, of which 3,041 were symptomatic and 29,654 were asymptomatic, up from 31,444 a day earlier.
Guangzhou and southwestern Chongqing recorded the bulk of Covid infections, although hundreds of new infections were reported daily in cities such as Chengdu, Jinan, Lanzhou, Xian and Wuhan.
In Zhengzhou, home to Apple’s largest iPhone manufacturing site, 6.6 million people have been asked to stay home for the next four days. Daily mass testing has been ordered in what the city government called a “war of annihilation” against the virus, The Associated Press reported.
