China’s technology hub Shenzhen has ordered the closure of the world’s largest electronics wholesale market to curb a recent spike in coronavirus cases in the southern city. The merchants received an official notice that the market will be closed till Thursday to control the COVID spread.
It is reported that all the tenants are required to work from home during the period and take a nucleic acid test every day.
The new virus has emerged in Hong Kong, which is close to Shenzhen, and has recorded 8,488 new cases. The cases are expected to peak at 20,000 next month. Hong Kong so far recorded 1,522,460 cases and 9,668 fatalities.
Recently thousands of tourists were forsaken for days when China shut down the biggest summer resort Sanya in Hainan cancelling flights and transport services to contain the spread of the Omicron variant. China reported 301 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country, of which 161 were in Sichuan Province.
The periodic COVID-19 lockdowns have seriously affected supply chains of the industrialised goods in the world’s second largest economy. In Beijing, all the residents currently undergo mandatory testing three days a week to ensure proper checks on the periodic spikes.
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