BEIJING — The major manufacturing hub of Dongguan in China’s most populous province of Guangdong launched mass testing on Monday for the coronavirus and cordoned off communities after detecting its first infections in the current outbreak.
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has dominated infections in the provincial upsurge, the first time it has hit China. Seen by experts as highly transmissible, the variant was first identified in India.
Dongguan launched a citywide testing program on Monday, following two cases reported since last Friday. City authorities told residents not to leave, except for essential reasons.
Even then, those leaving must show negative test resu…
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