BEIJING —
China reported its highest daily COVID-19 caseload in six months Monday,
despite grinding lockdowns that have heavily disrupted manufacturing,
education, and day-to-day life.
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Beijing over the weekend quashed hopes that its
strict zero-COVID policy — in which spot lockdowns, quarantines and mass
testing are employed to quash outbreaks — might be relaxed anytime soon.
But a torrent of lockdown-related scandals where
residents have complained of inadequate conditions, food shortages and delayed
emergency medical care have chipped away at public confidence.
The country logged more than 5,600 new COVID cases
Monday — almost half in Guangdong province, a southern manufacturing hub home
to major ports.
In Beijing, almost 60 new infections were
discovered, causing school closures in the populous downtown district of
Chaoyang. Some companies also asked their staff to work from home temporarily.
This was despite city authorities saying Monday that
recent “successive outbreaks” had “basically been effectively controlled”,
after daily new cases reached dozens in the past week.
And in central China, a grueling lockdown at the
world’s biggest iPhone factory in Zhengzhou led
Apple Sunday to warn that
production had been “temporarily impacted” and that customers would experience
delays in receiving their orders.
“The facility is currently operating at
significantly reduced capacity,” the California-based tech titan said in a
statement.
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