Coronavirus: megacities put up entry barriers as China goes back to work
- Guangdong and Shenzhen have gone into partial lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the extended Lunar New year holiday ended
- Shenzhen announced on Friday that movement in and out of the city’s housing estates and villages would be limited to residents and their vehicles
Two megacities in China’s southern manufacturing heartland have imposed partial lockdowns, with tight entry restrictions to control the spread of a coronavirus as the country goes back to work.
The epidemic control and prevention centre in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong and has a population of about 13 million people, announced on Friday that movement in and out of the city’s housing estates and villages would be limited to residents of those communities and their vehicles.
Anybody who has been to an outbreak hotspot in the past fortnight will have to stay at home while anybody who has been in close contact with a coronavirus patient will be quarantined.
Shenzhen police also said that all motorists would have to register their vehicles in advance to enter the city.
