Guangzhou eases more COVID-19 controls


More districts in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have announced measures to bring life and work back to normal amid the COVID-19 control.
In Nansha district, primary, middle schools and kindergartens will resume in-person classes, the district's COVID-19 control headquarters announced late on Thursday.
In Zengcheng district, dine-in services at restaurants will come back and indoor entertainment and service venues will reopen.
In Panyu district, indoor crowded entertainment venues such as KTVs and bars will be accessible to those with a negative nucleic acid test result within 48 hours. Other indoor service venues will accept those with a green health code.
Out-patients can enter hospitals in the district with a green health code and in-patients and their companions are required to present a negative nucleic acid test result within 24 hours.
The Guangzhou government has been optimizing the COVID-19 control measures to be more precise and scientific in the effort.
The city reported 654 new local confirmed COVID-19 patients and 5,185 new local asymptomatic cases on Thursday.
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