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Coronavirus in China: Shenzhen spike of 96 imported cases driven by Hong Kong’s raging fifth wave
- Guangdong province’s 117 cases topped mainland China’s daily tally of imported Covid-19 infections on Friday, with tech hub Shenzhen the worst hit
- In Hong Kong, a city of 7.4 million, cases had soared to nearly 57,000 on Thursday
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The southern province of Guangdong reported China’s highest number of daily imported Covid-19 cases, accounting for nearly half of the nationwide tally and with all but two cases originating from neighbouring Hong Kong.
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Of 233 imported cases declared by Chinese health authorities on Friday, as many as 117 were detected in Guangdong, mostly in the tech hub of Shenzhen just across the border from Hong Kong, which is battling an exponential fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Shenzhen detected 96 infections on Thursday, all of them from Hong Kong. Other Guangdong cities reporting cases from Hong Kong were Zhuhai with six, four each in Zhongshan and Jiangmen, two each in Huizhou and Shanwei, and one in Foshan.
Provincial capital Guangzhou reported two imported cases, from Kuwait and Jordan.
Hong Kong has been the origin of most Covid-19 cases imported into Shenzhen this week. On Monday, all 31 imported cases there were from Hong Kong.
Shanghai on the east coast with 43 cases ranked second on imported infections, followed by 26 in Guangxi, a southern province next to Guangdong and bordering Vietnam.
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